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One Day in People's Poland

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Maciej J. Drygas • 1h 0m

Directed by Maciej J. Drygas • Documentary • 2005 • 61 minutes

Nothing special happened in the People's Republic of Poland on September 27. The weather forecast predicted moderate cloudiness. More than 1,600 citizens were born, about 600 died. Day like every day... One Day in People’s Poland takes an ordinary date and turns it into a revealing portrait of daily life under a highly controlled state. By weaving together archival files, inspection reports, newsreels, diary fragments, and intercepted letters, the film constructs a chronological narrative of a single day in the Polish People’s Republic. What appears to be an ordinary “day in the life” becomes a powerful exploration of a paranoid political system, where surveillance, propaganda, and the official ideology shaped not only public life but also personal experience.

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