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THE POWER OF RESISTANCE

POLISH TITLE: SIŁA OPORU

Olga’s political idealism and hopes for a better future are put to the hardest of tests. The authoritarian, omniscient communist authorities are determined to break down the actress when her father is in hospital fighting for his life, while her husband is in prison. Olga needs to find herself in a new situation and make an impossible choice. Every hour of delay may bring disastrous consequences. The film, set in the 1980s, includes both a social and historical streak. The authors were very attentive to detail designing the sets and costumes and the script includes questions worthy of the cinema of moral unrest. Olga herself is as resolute as Agnieszka, the protagonist of ‘Man of Marble’ by Andrzej Wajda. Does an individual have any chance to protect his or her loved ones and preserve dignity in the confrontation with the giant machine of power?

GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
30'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Elżbieta Benkowska
SCRIPT:
Elżbieta Benkowska, Tomasz Stochniał
DOP:
Maciej Edelman
EDITOR:
Irena Banat
MUSIC:
Marcin Krzyżanowski
SOUND:
Jacek Hamela, Marcin Popławski
PRODUCTION:
Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński, Studio Munka - SFP

Elżbieta Benkowska »

The fact that she was born on the day of the 55th birthday of Roman Polański is not a mere coincidence. A daughter of shipyard worker and an accountant, a sister of a mathematician, a granddaughter of three Kashubians and one citizen of the Free City of Danzig, she decided to be a film director. She started with short documentary movie about female Polish hockey-player, now she is more interested in feature films. She graduated from Gdynia Film School where she studied film directing and from University of Gdansk where she learnt Slavic languages. „Olena” is her diploma film.
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