Edward Skórzewski
Edward SKORZEWSKI (1930-1991, Poland) was one of the best Polish documentary filmmakers, known predominantly for the so called Czarna Seria/Black Series, with Jerzy Hoffman. De Black Series broke with the Utopian vision and did not shirk from tackling and naming social problems such as vandalism, prostitution, alcoholism, unemployment and child abuse.
Filmography
(Selection) Czy jestes wsrod nich?/Are you amongst them (short documentary, 1954), Uwaga, chuligani!/Look out, Hooligans! (1955), Pamiatka z Kalwarii/A Souvenir from Calvary (1958), Gangsterzy i filantropi/Gangsters and Philantropists (1963), Prawo i piesc/The Law and the Fist (1964), Doktorant (1973).
Edward Skórzewski at IFFR
The Law and the Fist
93'
Poland
IFFR 2011