Canada/Poland, 2005 - 37 minutes Produced and directed by Eric Bednarski

摘要

Forthe casual tourist in Warsaw, the overbearing buildings and towering socialist realist statues of the 1950s' MDM complex (Marszatkowska Dzielnica Mieszka-niowa-Marszatkowska Housing District) are likely to appear as an odd, even charming, anachronism in a city whose rapid economic transition is clearly marked in its opulent shopfronts and advertisement-laden streetscapes. For Bednarski, a young Canadian documentary filmmaker, the structures of the MDM have a deeper meaning: they are a reflection of Warsaw's, and Poland's, troubled twentieth-century history of destruction, loss, disappointment, and eventual rebirth. Ably interweaving archival footage, interviews, city plans and contemporary street scenes, his film MDM sets out a compelling tale of architectural transformation in one of Warsaw's central neighbourhoods.