Mateczniki

Running time: 42'

Retired professor of the University of Szczecin is writing a monograph about Żabnica, his home village by the Oder river. While looking for the materials for the monograph he notices that his observations concerning what happened to post-war inhabitants of his village also applies to the inhabitants of all Western Pomerania. He also recognises the German past of this land and the similarity of fate: “as a result of the war Germans lost their Eastern lands, and Poles lost their Eastern lands.” He discovers the plight of the newcomers who settled in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship area and the drama of German deportees. He notices that war and all totalitarianism is the evil that destroys the work of generations. Building the identity of Western Pomerania means building a future in cooperation, also with our neighbours on the other side of the Odra river.

Authors:

  • Michał Kulik

    Born in 1954 in Szczecin. In 1978, he finished engineering studies at Szczecin University of Technology, in 1980 he went on a scholarship to Wismar (GDR) and in 1988 in Hamburg (FRG). In 1991, he started producing films with his brother Paweł under the name Q-Vision (in 2012 renamed to Kulik Film). Nominated for Deutsch-Polnischer Tadeusz Mazowiecki Journalistenpreis (German-Polish journalist award) for three films: “Sploty jednego warkocza” in 2014, “Ogród po drugiej stronie rzeki” in 2016, and “Art location” 2018.

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  • Paweł Kulik

    Born in 1958 in Szczecin. His interest in film has its source in his interest in electronics (he built prototypes of such devices as the video player – 1984, or video mixer – 1989) and in cooperation with Szczecin painters, with whom he created so-called video-art. In 1996 he produced his first documentary film “Woda” for “Małe ojczyzny,” which premiered in w TVP2. His first independent video-art “Dwa” represented Polish short film at Videofest festival in Berlin in 1994. He was nominated for Deutsch-Polnischer Tadeusz Mazowiecki Journalistenpreis (German-Polish journalist award) for 3 films: “Sploty jednego warkocza” in 2014, “Ogród po drugiej stronie rzeki” in 2016 and “Art location” 2018.

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