Tonia and Her Children / Tonia i jej dzieci

Running time: 57'

Wera and Marcel’s mother came as a Jewish communist to Palestine. From there she was deported to France. Her husband Sioma fought in Spain, was interned in France, handed over to the Gestapo and murdered in Auschwitz. In 1941 Tonia voluntarily registered as a Jew in France, but was arrested there in 1945 as an illegal immigrant. With her children she returned to Poland, where in 1949 she was again arrested. For five years she suffered humiliation and torture, and then, despite having been released as innocent, continues to insist that she was an accomplice of Noel Fields. She remains a communist until the end of her life in Israel. Wera and Marcel hum a left-wing children’s song that has stuck in their memory.

Authors:

  • Marcel Łoziński

    Marcel Łoziński was born in 1940 in Paris and is a graduate of Warsaw University of Technology's Faculty of Electronics and of the Department of Directing at the Film School in Łódź. Documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter. Winner of the European Film Award for the documentary “Poste Restante”, an Oscar nominee for “89 mm from Europe”. Member of the American Film Academy AMPAS and of the European Film Academy EFA. Winner of the Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize, of the Polityka Magazine Passport Award, and of the Grand Award of the Foundation for Polish Culture. He taught at the Paris FEMIS Film School and Warsaw University’s Institute of Polish Culture. He has conducted documentary film-making workshops in Moscow, Kiev, Helsinki, Beijing, Tallinn, Marseilles, Barcelona, Tui and Lyon.

    Poste Restante (2008)
    How It Is Done (2006)
    So It Doesn't Hurt (1998)
    Anything Can Happen (1995)
    89 mm from Europe (1993)
    Recipe for Life (1977)

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