Synopsis
Our street is Ogrodowa Street in Lodz, Poland. A working class family, the Furmanczyk, have lived here over five generations, opposite the factory that has been their whole life, and which has been in ruins since the fall of Communism. The factory is now being transformed by a French financial group into a leisure and shopping mall, the largest in Central Europe. Over three years, the filmmaker recorded the life of this family facing changes overtaking (or overwhelming) contemporary Poland.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Agat Films - Ex nihilo
- Co-production : ARTE France
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Party Film Sales
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Blanche Guichou
- Screenwriter : Marcin Latallo
- Director of Photography : Marcin Latallo
- Editor : Ursula Lesiak
- Sound Recordist : Alexandre Dayet
- Sound editor : Amélie Canini
- Sound mixer : Amélie Canini
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : City/urban themes, The future
- Production language : Polish
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2006
- Runtime : 51 min 38 seconds
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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