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Thursday, November 1, 1984
Daily Nebraskan
'Far From Poland 'impressive
in unique Solidarity portrayal
Review by Lisa Eenner
Dally Nebrwkan tjiff Eeporter
"Far From Poland" b a film
about distance. Distance between
countries, languages and between
fact and fiction.
In 1980 Jill Godmilow was in
Poland at the time of the first
strike at the Gdansk shipyard.
She says, "...I could feel this in
credible energy in the air, as if
someone had broken through the
wall of a vacuum cleaner." Later
Godmilow was denied visas back
to Poland to shoot footage about
Polish Solidarity. But it was that
same strength and energy she
first felt that gave her the deter
mination to make a film which is
part documentary and part
dramatization.
The film is divided into texts.
Each text has it's own story to
tell, fact or fiction.
"The Dialogues " by Godmilow
and Mark Magill, are short inter
actions between Jill the filmmaker
and her friend Mark. The rest of
the texts are interjected through
out the film, the order seemingly
unimportant. The action always
returns to the scenes with Jill
and Mark. They save the film
from becoming too heavy, and
perhaps too melodramatic.
Mark is funny and critical, quick
to provide a barbing comment
when Jill can no longer separate
herself from the Polish struggle.
Although at times the filmmaker
is being criticized, it clearly shows
the involvement and dedication
that goes into her work.
The other texts are: "Mark's
Tape Another Flaming Liberal,"
"Perhaps People Aren't Bad After
All," "Inside The Mind Of A Cen
sor," The Coal We Dig Is Ours"
and "The Letters Of General
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The filmmaker's tools.
Jaruzelski" The main substance
and emotional impact comes from
the dramatizations of actual inter
views published by Solidarity in
Tygodnik Powszechny," the legal
but censored weekly newspaper.
The first interview, "Perhaps
People Aren't So Bad After All,"
by Hanna Krall, is with Anna
Walentynowicz, the 55-year-old
crane operator whose firing ig
nited the Gdansk strikes. Anna's
testimony is inspiring; she is a
woman with incredible courage.
She talks about her life and
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