Maciej J. Drygas is a Polish director of documentaries and radio dramas.
Polish School of Documentary Movies
Maciej J. Drygas
Number of disks: 2
Condition: Brand New, Sealed, Mint
Total time: 219 minutes
Languge version: Polish
Subtitles: English, French, German, Russian
Region: 2 (PAL). European or multi-system DVD player is required to see this DVD.
"Maciej J. Drygas" 2-DVD set is the part of NInA Publishing's series "Polish School of Documentary Movies". Each volume of he series, which is edited by Tadeusz Sobolewski, is devoted to different Polish documentary filmmaker and contains selected documentaries from his/her artistic output. Series includes the presentations from the body of woks of recognized film directors, as well as from some of the forgotten masters and débutante directors.
Content:
DVD 1:
1. "Uslyszcie mój krzyk…", 1991 r.
2. "Stan niewazkosci", 1994 r.
DVD 2:
1. "Glos nadziei", 2002 r.
2. "Jeden dzien w PRL", 2005 r
About Maciej J. Drygas:
Born in 1956 in Lodz. Graduate of the Directing Department of the Moscow All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (WGIK). Director of documentaries and radio dramas. Immediately after his studies, he was an assistant to Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski. He debuted as a documentary director with a piercing morality play, the film USŁYSZCIE MÓJ KRZYK / HEAR MY CRY, which won many awards at festivals all around the world. His second film STAN NIEWAŻKOSCI / WEIGHTLESS, which speaks of "human" costs of the space conquest, met with a similar success. He is now the director of the radio drama section of the Reportage Laboratory at Warsaw University.
Filmography:
1991 USŁYSZCIE MÓJ KRZYK / HEAR MY CRY
1994 STAN NIEWAŻKOSCI / WEIGHTLESS (Prix Italia '94; Grand Prix at the Media Festival in Lodz, 1994; First prize at the Balticum Film and Television Festival in Bornholm, 1995; Grand Prix at the International Monte-Carlo TV Festival, 1995; Prix Europa'95; First Prize at the International Film Festival in Strasbourg, 1995; Grand Prix and Press Award at the Ismailia Festival For Documentary And Short Films, 1995)
2002 GŁOS NADZIEI / VOICE OF HOPE
2005 JEDEN DZIEŃ W PRL / ONE DAY IN PEOPLE'S POLAND (Silver Dragon at the national competition of the Cracow Film Festival, 2006)
from the catalogue "Young Polish Cinema" published by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute