Directed by Maciej J. Drygas • Documentary • 1991 • 48 minutes
On September 8, 1968, during a harvest festival at the central stadium in Warsaw, Ryszard Siwiec set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His act of defiance, witnessed by thousands, was immediately suppressed and erased from public memory by the communist authorities. Hear My Cry reconstructs this forgotten act of resistance through meticulous archival research. Using state newsreels, radio broadcasts, photographs, and censorship records, the film uncovers how an individual’s moral protest was deliberately silenced and how propaganda transformed a moment of truth into collective amnesia.
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