The Return of Agnieszka H.

Poland, Czech Republic2013documentary77'Jacek Petrycki Retrospective

The film is a light-hearted and, in many places, humorous story about the student years of Poland's most famous director Agnieszka Holland, who studied at FAMU from 1966 to 1971, during the period of political breakthroughs. The artist actively participated in the events of the Prague Spring and the student protests against the so-called normalisation in Czechoslovakia.

directed by
Q&A guest, portret reżysera
Krystyna Krauze

Graduate in documentary filmmaking from FAMU. She has made several reportages for Czech television and is the author of the documentary ‘Our Vasek - the power of the powerless’. The subject of the film is Václav Havel, his relations with Poland and the contacts of the Polish and Czechoslovak opposition.

Q&A guest, portret reżysera
Jacek PetryckiQ&A guest

Director of photography and producer of feature movies, documentaries and teleplays, born 1948 in Poznań. The winner of BAFTA award for cinematography of the film "The Betrayed" and many foreign and Polish awards. Director of photography of some of the most famous documentaries of the 70’s: "Curriculum Vitae" and "Hospital" by Krzysztof Kieślowski, "How to live" and "Microphone Check" by Marcel Łoziński, and other documentary filmmakers. Petrycki is also a director of photography of the films of so called Cinema of Moral Anxiety trend, e.g.: "The calm" and "Camera Buff" by Krzysztof Kieślowski, "Provincial actors" and "A Lonely Woman" by Agnieszka Holland.

cinematography
Jacek Petrycki
script
Krystyna Krauze
music
Maciej Kaziński, Maria Bikont, Mikołaj Trzaska
editing
Evženie Brabcová
Photo
Kadr z filmu The Return of Agnieszka H.