Notatki z wygnania. Skibet. Hatikvah (1970/2010) i Return To Poland (1981) Mariana Marzyńskiego
Notes From Exile. Skibet. Hatikvah (1970/2010) And Return To Poland (1981) Mariana Marzyńskiego

Summary/Abstract: Marian Marzyński is a well-known and valued director of documentary films in which, basing mostly on his own biography, he talks about difficult Polish-Jewish relations and 20th-century Eastern European history. The director’s characteristic style – constant presence in the diegesis, author’s commentary, numerous references to his own biography, camera from the hand, using materials from the archive collected for decades - allow him to narrate the narrative from the perspective of a witness and participant in the great History. An important thread in the director’s work is emigration. Forced to leave his homeland as a result of the events called “March ‘68,” he was the first to translate this experience into artistic expression. His debut abroad – made for the Danish television “Skibet / Hatikvah” (1970/2010) – is the first recording of a situation in which Poles of Jewish origin found themselves after leaving Poland as a result of anti-Semitic campaign. The image of lost people, unsure of their future fate and their own identity, is absolutelty impressive, despite – or maybe thanks to – the severity and modesty of the image. The text by Joanna Preizner on that picture sets Marzyński’s films in a historical, political and moral context, making the memories of March ‘68 emigrants a separate story, necessary to understand the events and statements shown on the screen.

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