Polish
Paths to Freedom: Behind the Iron Curtain is the second part of a special season of free film shows covering the history of Poland from September 1939 to the present. The section covered this Spring, depicts Poland from the formation of the communist system after the Second World War, through to the years of Stalin and on to 1970 when the regime sent the army against the striking workers in Gdansk. The films presented here portray the Cold War from the perspective of a people who were living right at the heart of that experience.
The season is a collaborative project between the Imperial War Museum, the Polish History Museum in Warsaw, and Filmoteka Narodowa, and comprises an exciting array of subtitled Polish features and documentaries, many of which have not been seen in the UK. The Imperial War Museum is contributing a large number of titles from its own collection, ranging from newsreels released at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the period of the reconstruction of Poland's battered cities, to documentaries produced by filmmakers (many of them Polish exiles) and made in the intervening years of Poland's isolation.
May 2008
Thursday 1 May, Friday 2 May
11.00am One.Two..Three..No. 11 (1953); Roving Report - People of Poland (1959);
HMS Tiger Visits Gdynia During a Baltic Cruise (1959)
12noon: Struggles for Poland: Sweepers of Squares (1988)
2.00pm In Full Gallop (Cwal) (1995)
Sunday 4 May
11.00am One Day in People's Poland (Jeden dzien w PRL) (2005);
There and Back (Tam i z powrotem) (1978); Opowiesc o zlowieku, który
wykonal 552% normy (The Story of a Man Who Worked 552% Above His Quota) (1973)
2.00pm One Day in People's Poland (Jeden dzien w PRL) (2005);
There and Back (Tam i z powrotem) (1978); The Story of a Man Who Worked 552%
Above His Quota (Opowiesc o czlowieku, który wykonal 552% normy) (1973)
Introduction by Maciej Drygas, Film director (interpretation in English), 4 May 2008, 2 pm
Tuesday 6 May
11.00am One Day in People's Poland (Jeden dzien w PRL) (2005);
There and Back (Tam i z powrotem) (1978); The Story of a Man Who Worked 552% Above His Quota (Opowiesc o czlowieku, który wykonal 552% normy) (1973)
2.00pm One Day in People's Poland (Jeden dzien w PRL) (2005); There and Back (Tam i z powrotem) (1978); The Story of a Man Who Worked 552% Above His Quota (Opowiesc o czlowieku, który wykonal 552% normy) (1973)
Sunday 11 May
11.00am Don't cry (Nie placz) (1972); March Caresses (Marcowe migdaly) (1989)
2.00pm Don't cry (Nie placz) (1972); March Caresses (Marcowe migdaly) (1989)
Monday 12 May, Tuesday 13 May
11.00am Don't cry (Nie placz) (1972); March Caresses (Marcowe migdaly) (1989)
2.00pm Don't cry (Nie placz) (1972); March Caresses (Marcowe migdaly) (1989)
Wednesday 14 May - Saturday 17 May
11.00am Requiem For 500,000 (1962); Poland (1968); Rachel at Gdansk Train Station (Rachela na Dworcu Gdanskim) (2006)
2.00pm Requiem For 500,000 (1962); Poland (1968); Rachel at Gdansk Train Station (Rachela na Dworcu Gdanskim) (2006)
Introduction by Poldek Sobel, editor, 17 May 2008, 2 pm
Sunday 18 May - Wednesday 21 May
11.00am The Struggles for Poland: The Workers State
2.00pm The Man of Marble (Czlowiek z marmuru) (1976)
Introduction by historian, prof. Anita PraSmowska, LSE, 18 May, 2 pm | 
