32nd Polish Film Festival in America

WHO WAS JERZY GIEDROYĆ & WHO WAS JERZY GIEDROYĆ PART 2

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The story presenting the main moments in the life of a witness to the revolution in Petrograd and Moscow, a participant in the political life of the Second Polish Republic, publisher of Bunt Młodych and Polityka, a diplomat who saved Polish refugees in Romania, a soldier of the Polish army in Tobruk, a participant in the Italian campaign of the 2nd Corps General Anders. And all this until the end of World War II. A lot for one man. As he said about himself – a state man.

The second part of the film is a story describing the adventures of establishing the CULTURE Literary Institute, the secret of the Nobel Prize for Miłosz, and above all the emergence of the idea of ​​cooperation between Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus and Poland. The value brought by the Kultura Literary Institute to European culture cannot be overestimated. And one man was behind it, Jerzy Giedroyć.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    54 minutes