THE PORTRAITIST
(PORTRECISTA)



2005, 52 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Ireneusz Dobrowolski
SCRIPT:
Ireneusz Dobrowolski
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Jacek Taszakowski
MUSIC:
Agata Steczkowska
EDITING:
Ireneusz Dobrowolski
SOUND:
Marcin Teperek
PRODUCER:
Anna Dobrowolska
PRODUCTION:
Rekontrplan Film Group

On September 31, 1940 Wilhelm Brasse, a prewar portrait photographer, was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp where, on orders of SS, he was in charge of secret photographic documentation in the reconnaissance commando of the political unit. A day before the camp evacuation, risking his life, he saved most of the photographs known today which document the Nazi crimes in Auschwitz.

Ireneusz Dobrowolski

A documentary filmmaker. Author of the following films: Hubner (1990), Pospieszalscy (1990), Theatre and Politics. Dziady 1967/68 (Teatr i polityka. Dziady 1967/68, 1991), The Clinic of Little Creatures (Klinika malych stworzen, 2004). The Portraitist (Portrecista) was awarded Silver Lajkonik at the Cracow FF and Main Prize at the "Jewish Motifs" Warsaw IFF.

Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 8:45 pm. (Gallery Theatre)