Redcurrants
An interesting hybrid: a documentary monodrama. Leo Kantor, a Polish Jew who escaped death during World War II and who had to emigrate following the events of March 1968, is on stage, talking about the time of his youth: about matters big and small, about moments that vanished into the stream of history. His story is enriched by photographs and archival recordings. This affirmation of life is accompanied by an awareness of its fragility.
Piotr Mirski
Leo Kantor
Leo Kantor was born in 1940. He studied Russian Philology and taught at the Pedagogical University of Opole. He later worked at Stockholm University. He organizes seminars on subjects related to the Holocaust and human rights. He has directed two documentary films – W poszukiwaniu utraconego krajobrazu (In Search of a Lost Landscape) and Tam, gdzie rosną porzeczki (Where Currants Grow) – that discuss the fate of Polish Jews. He was awarded the Medal of Merit for Polish Culture and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
Filmography
2011 Tam, gdzie rosną porzeczki / Redcurrants (doc. short)
2014 W poszukiwaniu utraconego krajobrazu / In Search of the Lost Landscape (doc. short)