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MARTA

by Idriss Karim

Technical details

Screenplay and direction: Idriss Karim
Duration: 6 min
Year: 1969
Film format: 35 mm
Cinematography: Jerzy Oborski
Sound: Tadeusz Palczynski
Artistic advice: Kazimierz Karabasz, Kurt Weber
Editing: Halina Gronwocka
Production: PWSFTviT / documentary study

synopsis

Forty-eight hours in the life of a textile worker in Lódź: her exhausting job, an alcoholic husband and their three children. This film is the first in a trilogy of portraits of women, followed by Elzbieta K (1973) and Everyday Exile (1975).

FESTIVALS

- Prize at the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival, 1970
- 5th Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, 1973
Special Jury Prize for a selection of films from the Lódź Film School: Elzbieta K and Marta by Karim Idriss, and Zofia I Ludmila by Hamid Bensaïd
- Young Polish Film Prize, 1972
- Special prize: "The Worker's Voice"

"The excellent Polish selection should be noted. The films made in Lódź by the Moroccan Idriss Karim undeniably stand out. In just a few minutes, Karim sketches a portrait of two women, Marta and Elzbieta, and shows us the challenges of their existence with acumen and economy. In Zofia and Ludmila, Hamid Bensaïd looks at the issue of gypsies".
Journal de Genève, 31 October 1973