These are two stories about Poland. The first is a French docu-drama about Polish exiles in France; the second is a very recent fairy tale for clever viewers. Stories always deal with fiction and truth. In the French story there is an interesting use of documentary material to “prove” the fiction: no fantasy about Polish exiles in France. In the second story the whole situation seems to be complete fantasy, a bright and intelligent game with hidden rules. But how true is this fantasy? And how real is the game?
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FRAGMENTS D’EXIL is the outcome of a meeting between the director and Lew Bogdan, the French-born son of Polish immigrants and a theatre-man in Paris. The plot of… -
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The central figure of this moral tale is Augustin, a lecturer of mathematics at a small German university. Because of his extraordinary gifts he has succeeded in…