Polish Sketch
Polish Sketch is an amateur recording of a few Polish travels by Maurice Bekaert. He was a Belgian lawyer and salesman who also had a passion for filmmaking. During his visits in Poland, he recorded materials about the everyday life in cities such as Warsaw, Gdynia, Częstochowa and Toruń, as well as provincial towns and villages. This unique material is a nostalgic journey into the Republic of Poland in the 1920s. In 1931 Maurice Bekaert was honoured with the Order of Polonia Restituta for promoting Polish culture.
Up until just a few years ago the film was virtually unknown. It was discovered in 2018 in the Royal Film Archives in Belgium. It was digitally restored in the FINA laboratories and shown to the Polish public for the first time only in 2021.
Michał Pieńkowski
The musical accompaniment will be provided by the violinist Grzegorz Gadziomski.
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Free admission. Entrance tickets for all screenings on a given day will be available one hour before the start of the first screening of that day. A maximum of two entrance tickets per screening can be collected.
DATE
April 12, 2024
TIME
3:30 PM
VENUE
Muzeum Warszawy Syrena
COPY / OTHERS
DCP
Live music
DATE
April 13, 2024
TIME
2:00 PM
VENUE
Muzeum Warszawy Syrena
COPY / OTHERS
- DCP
- Live music
ENGLISH TITLE
Polish Sketch
ORIGINAL TITLE
Croquis polonais
LANGUAGE
French intertitles
SUBTITLES
Polish, English
SECTION
DIRECTOR
DURATION
48 min
YEAR
1920 – 1931
COUNTRY
SALES
FINA
TRIGGER WARNING
