Section: Regio: Silesia

GRUBA

THE MINE

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Poland, 2017, 65 Min

The film begins with a dedication to Irena Kamieńska. But who was this woman? She was a great documentarist of work in the era of the real existing socialism, who forged icons of the work out of the sweating away women.

ATM Grupa S.A.

One of the many ailing mines in Upper Silesia. Three women work on the night shift, responsible for cleaning the coal loading facility. The small workforce is facing the forthcoming merger with the neighbouring mine and job cuts are feared. The work is extremely hard and the workplace borders on the unbearable: Dirty locker rooms, stinking toilets, noisy machines. Shovels, scoops and brooms whirl up dust, cuts are eaten during the break and chats about life with a wink of humour make the whole thing more bearable – and then time to remove the coal residues again. Night in, night out. KM

Filmformat
DCP | Doc | Farbe / Colour

Drehbuch
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Kamera
Marcin Ściegliński

Ton
Maciej Kaliński

Schnitt
Agnieszka Kowalczyk

Produzent
Adam Montrezor, Krzysztof Grabowski

Produktion
ATM Grupa S.A.

Kontakt
ATM Grupa S.A.
Renata Męcina
Wał Miedzeszyński 384
03994 Warsaw
Poland
+48 502 555 190
rmecina@atmgrupa.pl
www.atmgrupa.pl

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz - born in 1954 in Jelenia Góra, Poland. Director and scriptwriter. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and directing at the Silesian University Katowice and is one of the best-known Polish documentary filmmakers. Her films have received international awards. She teaches directing at the Film School Łódź.

Movies
JESTEM MĘŻCZYZNĄ (1986, doc, short)
POKOLENIE ’89 (2002, doc)
KOCHAM POLSKĘ (2008, doc)
ZWYCZAJNY MARZEC (2009, doc)
WIERA GRAN (2012, doc)

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