Polish Film Chronicle 91/11

This Newsreel edition is entirely devoted to the March events of 1968. The National Theatre staged Adam Mickiewicz’s “The Forefather’s Eve”, directed by Kazimierz Dejmek. Students took to the streets, writers protested. Arrests, expulsions from universities, protests of students from Cracow. In the background, the Egyptian-Israeli war and a new outbreak of the Cold War.