By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence..

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no ….

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them..

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to ca….

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 ye….

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well..

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality..

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the….

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared..

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, writ….

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active..

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made..

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality..

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that ….

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed les….

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in support….

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other ….

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of ….

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initia….

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a fil….

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply bec….