Voice of Hope
(Głos nadziei)



2002, 58 min.

Direction: Maciej Drygas
Script: Maciej Drygas
Cinematography: Andrzej Musial
Music: Pawel Szymanski
Editing: Katarzyna Maciejko - Kowalczyk
Sound: Slawomir Wieckus
Producers: Maciej Drygas, Jacques Debs
Produced by: TVP Channel 1, Canal +, Planete, ADR Productions,
Drygas Productions

SYNOPSIS:

The Polish Section of Radio Free Europe began broadcasting its programs from Munich in 1952 recognizing the fact that free access to information is instrumental in preserving human rights. Deemed hostile by the communist regime the station had avid listeners all over Poland. Everyday Poles, young and old, tuned in their radio sets. The regime established a dense network of jamming devices to ban the people's access to free information. Hundreds of specialists were kept busy day and night in effort to jam Radio Free Europe's broadcasts. Did they succeed in suppressing the voice of hope for Polish people?

Maciej Drygas (b. 1956 in Lodz) graduated from the Directing Department at the Soviet Union National Film School (VGiK) in 1981. He worked as the Assistant Director for Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski (directing collaboration in Blind Chance, 1981). Since 1991 he has directed documentary films and radio program; received numerous prestigious awards, including "Felix" of the European Film Academy for the best documentary in 1991 for his "Hear My Cry" and the 2005 Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. At the present, he is the head of the Radio Documentary Department in Laboratory of Reportage at Warsaw University and a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts and New Media.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 8:45 pm. (Gallery Theatre)

Screening with HEAR MY CRY directed by Maciej Drygas