A summer training camp for brides, members of the Union, in a contest of “Exemplary Family.” The jurors are anonymous, the course record film camera. Daily announcements are points which each marriage win. Schematically carried out examinations of political knowledge, interviewing children, prying, interference in the affairs of personal and organizational drill conflicts arise, revealing the methods of management of the camp, reveal the true attitudes and characters. —Filmpolski.pl
Marcel Łoziński was born in Paris, in the turbulent times of the Second World War in 1940. After the war, his family returned to Poland. After several years of working as sound editor in the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio, Marcel enrolled at the National Film School in Łódź in 1967. He finished his studies in 1971 (although he only received his degree several years later). In the same year, he made his debut film A Change/Zmiana and Seen from Underneath/Widziane z dołu, joining the ranks of the new generation of Polish directors, such as Tomasz Zygadło, Wojciech Wiszniewski, Paweł Kędzierski and Krzysztof Kieślowski.
As one of the most active and most loud documentarists of the generation, deeply unsatisfied with the situation of growing social paranoia caused by the deepening discrepancy between the reality they experienced and the “reality” that was propagated, he was logically followed by the regime’s watchdogs. His struggle with the censorship, which affected the presenting… read more