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Superjednostka

By

Teresa Czepiec

Duration

19 MIN

Language

Polish

Subtitles

English

Country

Poland

Year

2014

Rain or shine, it’s always good an ANTHROPOLOGICAL PORTRAIT on COMMUNITY
Diffusion completed

Synopsis

Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a "housing machine". Up to three thousand people can live on 15 floors of the building. The lifts only stop every three floors so the residents must go through a maze of corridors and stairs in order to get to their flats. The main characters of the documentary are people living in Superjednostka and going through important moments of their lives there. This is where their emotions throb, their expectations engender, and their desires come true... or not.
762 flat doors and 762 stories. We are opening only a few of them.

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Direction

Teresa Czepiec

Teresa Czepiec, director of short films, writer and storyboard artist. Worked as an architect both in Poland and North Ireland. Studied directing at the Krzysztof Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Graduated from the DOK PRO Documentary Programme in Wajda School and in visual arts from Le Fresnoy, France. Born in Belgium, works in Poland and France.

Editing

Jerzy Zawadzki

Sound designer

Krzysztof Ridan

Cinematographer

Pawel Dyllus

Screenplay

Teresa Czepiec

Original Title

Superjednostka

English Title

Super Unit

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