The Film Director Who Was a Spy.
Jadwiga Plucińska (1908–1999): A Forgotten Pioneer
of Polish Documentary Film
The Film Director Who Was a Spy.
Jadwiga Plucińska (1908–1999): A Forgotten Pioneer
of Polish Documentary Film
Author(s): Karol SzymańskiSubject(s): Political history, Social history, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: documentary film; Polish cinematography aft er 1945; women fi lm directors; political trials;
Summary/Abstract: Th is article aims to recall Jadwiga Plucińska – a pre-war actress, duringthe Second World War, a secretary in the Warsaw offi ce of Die Deutsche Wochenschau,and between 1946 and 1959, a director of some twenty documentaries and features for thePolish Newsreel, showing the social, cultural and moral changes fi rst in Poland recoveringfrom the devastation of war (especially in the so-called Recovered Territories), and thenduring the ‘56 October Th aw. Her career was interrupted in 1959 by her arrest and subsequentfi ve-year imprisonment on a charge of spying for US intelligence. As a result, Plucińska wasalmost completely forgotten and erased from the pages of Polish cinema history, and her work,withdrawn from distribution since the late 1950s, remains virtually unknown.
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
- Issue Year: 59/2024
- Issue No: Sp.
- Page Range: 77-86
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
