State of Weightlessness (0+)
Poland, 1994, colour, 57 min.
Director: Maciej J. Drygas
Director: Maciej J. Drygas
In the same year that we saw the first Russian-U.S. space mission go into orbit, symbolically marking the end of the Cold War's final frontier, filmmaker Drygas takes us behind the scenes of the Soviet/Russian space program. Combining interviews with Russian cosmonauts with never before seen archival footage of the early Soviet space program, The State of Weightlessness explores our place in the universe.
AWARDS
Special Mention at the Prix Italia '94, Grand Prix - 35th
Maciej J. Drygas
Maciej J. 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.
Poland, 1994, colour, 57 min.
Director: Maciej J. Drygas
Director: Maciej J. Drygas
In the same year that we saw the first Russian-U.S. space mission go into orbit, symbolically marking the end of the Cold War's final frontier, filmmaker Drygas takes us behind the scenes of the Soviet/Russian space program. Combining interviews with Russian cosmonauts with never before seen archival footage of the early Soviet space program, The State of Weightlessness explores our place in the universe.
AWARDS
Special Mention at the Prix Italia '94, Grand Prix - 35th