The Last Lesson
Poland2018documentary53'Konkurs dokumentalny (2018)Konkurs polski (2018)
The students are working hard to prepare for secondary school final exams, whose results may determine their future lives. The camera follows secondary school students during classes and private conversations when they discuss their plans, dreams, views and feelings. The film captures the special moment on the brink of adulthood when everything still seems to be possible although soon, nothing will be the way it used to be.
- directed by
- Grzegorz Zariczny
Director, screenwriter and film editor. He was born in 1983 in Kokotów. He earned a degree in Film Directing from the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice and completed the documentary course at the Wajda School, where he made his award-winning documentary debut "The Dog Hill" (2010). He is an author of the feature study "Our Bad Winter" (2012) and the documentary "The Whistle" (2012), which has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His full-screen debut "Waves" was released in 2016. He is a laureate of the Talent Trójka award (the award of the 3rd Programme of the Polish Radio) and a winner of the Creative Scholarship granted by the City of Krakow. In 2014, he received the Creative Scholarship of the Minister of Culture.
- cinematography
- Weronika Bilska
- script
- Grzegorz Zariczny
- sound
- Krzysztof Ridan
- editing
- Grzegorz Zariczny
- production
- Katarzyna Zariczny (Katarzyna Zariczny Produkcja Filmowa)
- Photo
