PL | 2012 | 71 min
reż|dir Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk prod|pro m scen|wr Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk, Marek Hendrykowski zdj|ph Tomasz Michałowski; Piotr Dumała muz|mus Krzysztof Komeda, Mariusz Ostański mon|ed Tadeusz Sosnowski ob|cast dys|dis Telewizja Regionalna – Stowarzyszenie Europejskie

A documentary film about Krzysztof Komeda-Trzciński, a legend of Polish jazz whose music, especially that created for films, brought him fame all over the world in the ’60s , and is still widely acclaimed. The film includes materials from the National Film Archive and the archives of Polish Television, iconographic materials from the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź, fragments of films with Komeda’s music, original animated sequences by Piotr Dumała, and memories of Komeda’s sister – Irena Orłowska, and those artists who had the chance to meet him: Roman Polański, Andrzej Wajda, Edward Etler, Jan Ptaszyna Wróblewski, Jerzy Milian, Michał Urbaniak, Jan Byrczek. Their accounts often turn out to be incoherent, and the picture they create is ambiguous.

Natasza Ziółkowska-Kurczuk  (1963)
Film director, scriptwriter, and journalist. Graduated from Culture Studies and Journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and the Directing Department of film and television at the PWSTviT Film School in Łódź. She worked for the “Wprost” weekly magazine, the “Radar” weekly magazine, Polish Radio in Poznań and Koszalin, and for the “Film” magazine editorial staff. Currently assistant professor at the Culture Studies Institute at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, where she teaches film and television. She makes documentary films, TV shows, reportages on social and cultural topics, as well as reports from festivals, and films on religion.