Miejsce Urodzenia
Poland,
1992, 47 min
Shown in 1993
CREDITS
- dir
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Pavel Lozinski
- cam
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Arthur Reinhart
- editor
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Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
- prod co
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Kronika Film Studio
- source
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Film Polski, Mazowiecka 6/8, 00-048, Warsw, Poland, FAX: 48-22-275-784.
- gga award
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Winner, History
- premiere
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International Premiere
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COMMENTS
Shown with Hear My Cry. Pavel Lozinski in person.
OTHER
If history could talk, we might begin to understand something. Birthplace, in which Henryk Grynberg, a Polish Jew, returns to the village of his childhood to discover the fate of his family, comes close to talking history: the Polish peasants in this extraordinary film seem unchanged with the years,and memory, grown sharp with old age, has made time stand still. We are back in the 1940s. Interviews with the villagers, some reluctant, some relieved, trace the bitter fate of a father and brother, a tale that unwittingly holds all the suspense and terror of a fictional plot, complete with a MacGuffin.
—Judy Bloch
FACTOID #191
The first screenwriter to receive a Festival tribute was Truman Capote in 1974. At the tribute he confessed that, in his opinion, Audrey Hepburn was too chic for the role of Holly Golightly. He would have preferred the then unknown Tammy Grimes for the role.
