Cinematheque: Polish Film Festival

JANEK WIŚNIEWSKI PADŁ (Poland, 2011, 35mm, 100 min.; directed by Antoni Krauze, with Marta Honzatko, Marta Kalmus-Jankowska, Michał Kowalski). Black Thursday, a historical docudrama, reconstructs the events surrounding the Gdynia shipyard protests of 1970. Protests led to political actions that mobilized the army to shoot at innocent civilians. The film follows Brunon and Stefania, a young, hardworking couple whose life gets forever altered that day.