How does one film a dictator? Klaus Dörrie created a fascinating historical document about the Polish General Jaruzelski, the last Polish president not elected democratically. Jaruzelski imposed martial law in Poland in 1981 and was forced to resign in 1990. The advisors of the last communist Polish president thought they would get director Klaus Dörries to shoot a propaganda film about President Jaruzelski. But Dörries outsmarted them with his cameras by filming behind the scenes and showing, how interviews are manipulated and how the general is shielded by his bodyguards. “The film is not so much a portrait of Jaruzelski and his political past as it is a window to the structures and rituals of his apparatus.” (Klaus Dörries)
A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.
How does one film a dictator? Klaus Dörrie created a fascinating historical document about the Polish General Jaruzelski, the last Polish president not elected democratically.
Jaruzelski imposed martial law in Poland in 1981 and was forced to resign in 1990. The advisors of the last communist Polish president thought they would get director Klaus Dörries to shoot a propaganda film about President Jaruzelski. But Dörries outsmarted them with his cameras by filming behind the scenes and showing, how interviews are manipulated and how the general is shielded by his bodyguards.
“The film is not so much a portrait of Jaruzelski and his political past as it is a window to the structures and rituals of his apparatus.” (Klaus Dörries)