12 TONS
(12 TON)



2008, 52 min., Poland
Polish with English subtitles

DIRECTION:
Michal Rogalski
SCRIPT:
Romuald Karas
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Karina Kleszczewska, Andrzej Wojciechowski
MUSIC:
Lech Rowinski
EDITING:
Jaroslaw Pietraszek
SOUND:
Robert Kubik
PRODUCED BY:
Ozumi Films
PRODUCER:
Marianna Rowinska, Joanna Fido

Between August 5 and August 7, 1944, sixty thousand of people of Wola, a district of western Warsaw, were killed and set on fire. 12 tons of ashes of the victims were later on collected off the streets of Wola. The documentary was inspired by dramatic memoirs of three witnesses: Wieslaw Kepinski, Eugeniusz Trepczynski, Wandy Lurie.

MICHAL ROGALSKI
Born in 1970 in Warsaw. Graduated from Journalism and Political Sciences at the University of Warsaw (1996) and Film Directing at the Lodz Film School (2002). A participiant of a feature film course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Author of many documentaries including Silesian Business (Slaski interes, 2006) and Kozietulski Street 6 (Kozietulskiego 6, 2004). He is about to complete his feature film debut The Last Mission (Ostatnia misja).

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 9pm (GALLERY THEATRE)