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The most important things
happened to me during my third year at the Lódz Film
School. Until that moment everything was going smoothly
without too many difficulties. I was very interested in
the new French films, Godard most of all. Under his
influence I wrote a script that I sent to a competition.
I received an award even if the expectations of the Film
School were not very high. I showed it during an
examination and the commission told me that I had two
possibilities: to get plucked or to leave the School. It
was a great defeat. Bossak was the only one who defended
me, Bohdziewicz just stared at me and Toeplitz attacked
me. The film was a provocation from an artistic point of
view and perhaps for this reason Toeplitz did not agree
with me. He said that I had made it with just few notions
and that in spite of my attending the Film School I had
not learnt anything and that I would not learn anything
even in the future. It was like
going against a wall: for the first time, very clearly, I
realized that I would have to fight for my films.
I understood that I would have to
defend my artistic and expressive freedom. I had the
impression that I had to answer to the question: who I
am. Youth is beautiful when we think we can reach any
aim, but only later we realize it is not like that. I
knew I could be a physicist or a phylosopher and that I
could try to do whatever I wanted to.
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| Krzysztof
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