Far from Poland Director: Jill Godmilow, Mark Magill Cast: John Fitzgerald, Jill Godmilow
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- DVD Release Date: 11/27/2007
- Original Release: 1984
- Sales Rank: 56,766
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Features
Facets cine-notes collectivle booklet by the director; On-camera introduction by the director; Scene selection
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Disc #1 -- Far from Poland
1. Telling the Real Story [5:32]
2. Going to Poland [10:34]
3. Why Solidarity [11:28]
4. Reaching Poland [8:47]
5. No Longer Afraid [9:33]
6. Strike For Anna [4:56]
7. Start of Act 2 [9:21]
8. Everyone is Solidarity [5:54]
9. Work, Hunger, Censorship [9:33]
10. Working For Food [9:13]
11. Christmas [6:45]
12. Epilogue [14:20]
Editorial Reviews
After Jill Godmilow failed to gain entry into Poland in the early 1980s to make a documentary on the Gdansk strike and the Solidarity movement, she created this docudrama that is meant to tell her story, as well as that of the strikers and the woman who began it all, Anna Walentynowicz (Elzbieta Komorowska). Undoubtedly upset at being rejected, the contrast between Godmilow's problems and the difficulties faced by the down-to-earth Anna is uncomfortably great. Anna has been fired from her job after 30 years of dedicated service at minimal wages, and the workers rally around her -- marking the beginning of the Gdansk strikes. Anna and others of her generation are brought forward in re-enacted interviews in the better segments of this docudrama, while Godmilow's own ruminations and commentaries are somehow less convincing in comparison. Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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