Leave No Traces director Jan P. Matuszynski said that although the Polish population might know about the murder of Grzegorz Przemyk, most didn’t understand the full scope of the operation. M…
in this year’s International Film Oscar race. It’s set in 1983, when Poland is shaken by the case of Przemyk , a high school student who’s beaten to death by militia for refusing to show his identity documents. Based on true events,follows the story of Jurek , the only witness of the beating, who became the No. 1 enemy of the state overnight.
“The whole thing is Kafkaesque,” the filmmaker said. “I don’t know. I would like to know the answer, but that’s part of the job. It all starts with Przemyk not showing his ID even though he had it on him. At the time, he didn’t have to show it due to the suspension of martial law, and he used his civil rights, which is something I admire. The freedom is symbolic.”“Almost everyone remembered the situation as traumatic,” he said.
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