PFF23: Polanski. Horowitz. Hometown

Synopsis

Award-winning filmmaker and his world-famous photographer friend return to Poland to wander around the cobbled streets of beautiful Cracow, recalling happy childhood memories as well as the tragic wartime experiences. The film is a colourful tale about growing up in a worn torn country, decades long friendship, the same Jewish fate and, above all, the place that despite the passage of time and many changes continues to remain their home.

After several decades, they finally meet in their hometown. World-famous photographer Ryszard Horowitz and award-winning, and highly controversial, film director Roman Polański. Two artists, who first met as children in the Jewish ghetto established by the Germans in the occupied Poland, return to Cracow to wander along the pathways of their wartime experiences. They tell the story of survival – how Horowitz became one of the youngest kids rescued by Oscar Schindler and how Polański after escaping the ghetto hid in the house of a poor peasant family – and a story of a long time friendship going back to the times when they skipped school to go to the movies, developed their first photographs and fell in love with art.