PHOTOGRAPHER
(FOTOAMATOR)

1998, 76 min., Poland
Polish with English subtitles

DIRECTION:
Dariusz Jablonski
SCRIPT:
Andrzej Bodek, Arnold Mostowicz, Daiusz Jablonski
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Tomasz Michalowksi
ART DIRECTIONA:
Pawel Mirowski
MUSIC:
Michal Lorenc
EDITING:
Milenia Fiedler
SOUND:
Piotr Domaradzki, Jens Hasler
PRODUCED BY:
Apple Film Production, TVP, Canal + Poland, MDR
PRODUCER:
Dariusz Jablonski

In 1987, a few hundred color slides were discovered in a second-hand bookstore in Vienna that documented scenes from the Lodz ghetto during the World War II. The slides were the work of Walter Genewein, Austrian citizen serving the Germans. A principal accountant in the ghetto's council. Genewein's slides have been used by the authors to show the real history of the Lodz ghetto and the extermination of its inhabitants. They have juxtaposed Genewein's "genre" photographs with the recollections of Arnold Mostowicz, ex-doctor in the ghetto and the last surviving witness of the extermination.

DARIUSZ JABLONSKI
Born in 1961 in Warsaw. Film producer and director. Graduated from Film Directing at the Lodz Film School. Worked as a second director with Krzysztof Kieslowski ("Decalogue", "Short Film About Love") and Filip Bajon ("White Card", "The Magnate"). President of Apple Film Production. He rarely directs, yet his documentary "Photo amateur" was awarded at many international film festivals. Producer of the first Polish independent documentary "Visit Our Lady" (1986). From 2000 to 2003 President of National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers. Founder and manager of Polish Film Awards; also founder of Independent Film Foundation promoting Polish filmmakers in Poland and abroad. A member of European Film Academy and a Council of European Film Producers.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2007 Strawberry Wine (Wino truskawkowe), feature debut film;
1998 Photo amateur (Fotoamator), documentary; Grand Prix in Amsterdam '98,
Biarritz '99, Banff '99 and Durham '99.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 3pm (SKOKIE THEATRE)