Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker
1975 · 21m · N/A
Documentary, History
Directed by
Wojciech Wiszniewski
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Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker
Overview
The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.
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