Wiktorowscy Family Archive

collection Wiktorowscy Family Archive
authors Wojciech Wiktorowski
starring Jerzy Błaszczyk
length 0:03:20
country Poland
locations Warsaw, Poland 
year 1978
format 8 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0041 004
description

Wojciech Wiktorowski was born in Warsaw in 1954 and has been interested in cinematography since his teenage years. Professionally, he worked, among other things, as a journalist at Polish Television and a contributor to the magazine Ekspres Reporterów, and was the author of many reports and documentaries devoted to protecting people from toxic factors in the environment and in social life. In addition to film, Wojciech’s great passion was crime novels. He realized his love for this genre as the author of the Ewa Calls 007 series: the books On the Edge of the Low Pressure Area (1985) and Milk Action (1986), as well as The Ghosts of Chernobyl (2011). 

The author of some of the films is also Wojciech’s father, Roman Wiktorowski, who worked as a surgeon in Morocco since 1965. 

The film was shot during the end of the school year, probably in 1978, at the Bohaterowie Olszynów Grochowskiej Elementary School No. 54 in Warsaw’s Saska Kępa district. 

Children in gala attire take part in the ceremony in the gymnasium, and later proceed to classrooms. One of the boys is Wojciech’s nephew, Jurasek (Jurek Błaszczyk), who graduated from first grade that day. After receiving their certificates, the students go out to the field and play soccer. 

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keywords school  graduation  learning  education  gymnasium  classroom  celebration  vacation  summer  field  ball game  child  childhood 
source of funding Polish Film Institute