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Tomasz Wolski Reveals Archive Footage Film ‘A Year in the Life of the Country,’ About Martial Law in Poland: ‘It’s a Comedy That Turns Into Horror’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Marta Balaga Visions du Réel winner Tomasz Wolski will focus on “A Year in the Life of the Country” next, Variety can reveal exclusively.

The Polish helmer – whose latest film “In Ukraine,” co-directed with Piotr Pawlus, premiered in Berlin – is set to explore the turbulent period of martial law, imposed on Dec.

13, 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in Communist Poland after a wave of strikes. Anna Gawlita will produce for Kijora Film. “It’s a topic we haven’t really looked at just yet.

These are very important stories, often tragic, and I was convinced that unlike in the case of ‘1970’ [his previous film about brutal suppression of worker protests], I would have almost too much material to work with.

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