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Jak to się robi / How To Do It
It’s all a question of perspective. Just as the opinions of a novel’s firstperson narrator should not be confused with those of its author, so we are entitled to shift our point of view without being accused of lying. Piotr Tymochowicz is a master of the art of turning words round, of cosmetically enhancing, of agitating. The “spin” is what it comes down to – and that is the art he wants to teach a group of young people recruited via TV then screened for several days at an assessment centre. His goal is to prime them for big-time politics. In the course of lengthy training sessions they make speeches, organize demonstrations, proclaim a “creative revolution”. His strategy appears to be successful, but his pupils’ initial enthusiasm dwindles as their charismatic instructor’s glaring lack of scruples becomes evident. Tymochowicz couldn’t care less what they think; he is obsessed with the idea of efficiently crafting leadership material. One determined pupil – the sole member of the group who vows he would stop at nothing to achieve his goals – perseveres until the game turns into real life. Director Marcel Łoziński’s quick cuts and keen observations allow us to witness the making of a populist – and a frighteningly unswerving political career. Reassuringly, most of the youngsters display healthy resistance to the lures of power and control over the masses. But let even one individual succumb to the temptation, and the potential for great misfortune is born. German premiere.
Poland 2006
87 min, Digital Beta, colour
DIRECTOR
Marcel Łoziński
SCREENPLAY
Marcel Łoziński
CAMERA
Jacek Petrycki
Andrzej Adamczak
Radosław Ładczuk
Leszek Skuza
EDITOR
Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
MUSIC
Jerzy Murawski
Jarosław Roszyk
PRODUCER
Zbigniew Domagalski
PRODUCTION
KALEJDOSKOP Film Studio, Warschau
CO-PRODUCTION
TVP SA - Film Agency, Warschau
PISF, Program Media
DISTRIBUTION
KALEJDOSKOP Film Studio, Warschau
MARCEL ŁOZIŃSKI
Marcel Łoziński graduated from the Film Directing Department of Łódź Film School in 1971. Counted among the most important Polish documentary filmmakers, he has been a lecturer at universities in Warsaw and Marseilles and at FEMIS Film School. His short documentary 89 MM OD EUROPY was nominated for an Oscar and a Felix in 1994 and won prizes at international festivals. Marcel Łoziński, awarded with the Andrzej Wajda / Philip Morris Freedom Prize, was honored for his lifetime achievement in Tarnów in 2005 and one year later in Warsaw.
FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION):
1974 Koło Fortuny / Wheel of Fortune
1990 Las Katyński / Katyn Forest
1993 89 mm od Europy / 89 mm from Europe
1995 Wszystko może się przytrafić / Anything Can Happen
2001 Pamiętam / I Remember (Shoah-project)
2006 Jak to się robi / How To Do It