Stills from the film LEKCJA 41, PWSTiF

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LEKCJA 41

(LESSON 41)

Technical details

Screenplay and direction: Hamid Bensaid
Duration: 7 min
Year: 1966
Film format: 35 mm
Camera: STANISLAW JAWORSKI
Sound: MARTA STANKIEWICZ
Editing: JANINA GROSIKA
Artistic advice: Kazimierz Karabasz, Jerzy Bossak
Production: PWSFTviT / documentary study

Synopsis

In professor Jan Kulak’s class, Miguel Sobrado, who had come from Costa Rica to study sociology, and his classmates from Congo, Iran, Indonesia, Portugal, Spain and Eritrea study Lesson 41, which looks at a romantic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz. Through the study of the Polish language, they learn about a country and a culture completely unknown to them.