Voice of Hope (0+)
France, 2002, colour, 58 min.
Director: Maciej Drygas
Director: Maciej Drygas
Several generations of Poles associate Radio Free Europe with freedom or, more precisely, with the hope of attaining freedom. In this documentary, Drygas films the memories of people who would regularly sit in front of their receivers listening to RFE. The broadcasts reported the 1956 Budapest uprising and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, but also about events in their own country and about its history. Reminiscences, archive material, excerpts of RFE broadcasts are interlaced here with statements by former employees of state radio stations, which did their best to jam the Radio Free Europe signal.
Maciej Drygas
Maciej Drygas
was born on 3 April 1956 in Lodz, Poland. Film and radio director, screenwriter, professor and lecturer at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. After having graduated in 1981 from the Film Directing Dept. of the Cinema Institute in Moscow (VGIK), he worked as an assistant director for Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski. He has won awards at numerous international festivals. Maciej J. Drygas’s films and radio documentaries have been broadcasted by television and radio stations in Europe, Canada, Brazil and Australia.
FILMOGRAPHY
«Hear me cry», 1991; «State of weightlessness», 1994; «A day in People’s Republic of Poland», 2005; «Hear us all», 2008; «Violated Letters», 2011; «Abu Haraz», 2013.
France, 2002, colour, 58 min.
Director: Maciej Drygas
Director: Maciej Drygas
Several generations of Poles associate Radio Free Europe with freedom or, more precisely, with the hope of attaining freedom. In this documentary, Drygas films the memories of people who would regularly sit in front of their receivers listening to RFE. The broadcasts reported the 1956 Budapest uprising and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, but also about events in their own country and about its history. Reminiscences, archive material, excerpts of RFE broadcasts are interlaced here with statements by former employees of state radio stations, which did their best to jam the Radio Free Europe signal.