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POLISH FILM DIRECTOR HOLLAND: "A QUALITY FILM ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS WIAITING TO BE MADE"
Mаry Mamyan
hetq
16:27, July 16, 2012
Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers visiting
Armenia for the screening of her film "In Darkness" at the Golden
Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, "A quality film about the
Armenian Genocide still needs to be made. It's a reality that still
needs recognition."
Holland, many of whose films deal with WWII, was at a loss to explain
why a good film has yet to be made regarding the 70 year existence of
the Soviet Union and the terrible repression that took place within
its borders.
Considered a Hollywood outsider, Holland stated that she is one of
those directors who place the primarmy emphasis on the composition
which is succeeded by the placement of the images.
"They coalesce and create a history that answers those questions that
compel me to make films," Hollan explained.
Perhaps Holland's best-known and well-regarded film is Europa Europa
(1991), based on the biography of Solomon Perel, a Jewish teenager
who fled Germany for Poland following Kristallnacht in 1938.
In Darkness (2011), a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film award
at the 84th Academy Awards as Polish entry, is based on true events.
The film tells a story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in the
Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lwów (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine), who
used his knowledge of the city's sewer system to shelter a group of
Jews of the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland.
It's a theme that strongly resonates with Holland who was born in
Warsaw a few years after the end of the WWII.
Her father's parents were killed in the ghetto, and her mother
participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was a member of the
Polish Underground.
"I didn't select this theme, it selected me many years ago and I have
become its slave," Holland said.
Mаry Mamyan
hetq
16:27, July 16, 2012
Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers visiting
Armenia for the screening of her film "In Darkness" at the Golden
Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, "A quality film about the
Armenian Genocide still needs to be made. It's a reality that still
needs recognition."
Holland, many of whose films deal with WWII, was at a loss to explain
why a good film has yet to be made regarding the 70 year existence of
the Soviet Union and the terrible repression that took place within
its borders.
Considered a Hollywood outsider, Holland stated that she is one of
those directors who place the primarmy emphasis on the composition
which is succeeded by the placement of the images.
"They coalesce and create a history that answers those questions that
compel me to make films," Hollan explained.
Perhaps Holland's best-known and well-regarded film is Europa Europa
(1991), based on the biography of Solomon Perel, a Jewish teenager
who fled Germany for Poland following Kristallnacht in 1938.
In Darkness (2011), a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film award
at the 84th Academy Awards as Polish entry, is based on true events.
The film tells a story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in the
Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lwów (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine), who
used his knowledge of the city's sewer system to shelter a group of
Jews of the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland.
It's a theme that strongly resonates with Holland who was born in
Warsaw a few years after the end of the WWII.
Her father's parents were killed in the ghetto, and her mother
participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and was a member of the
Polish Underground.
"I didn't select this theme, it selected me many years ago and I have
become its slave," Holland said.