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Working Women

director: Piotr Szulkin

original title: Kobiety pracujace

country: Poland

year: 1978

running time: 6 min.

synopsis

A series of five static, carefully lit shots of single workers concentrating on their job is complemented by a joyless look at an exhausted mother. The amplified sounds of the environment that accompany each scene culminate in the composition of a baby's screams and the sighs of a couple copulating on the screen in a woman's bedroom.

biography

Piotr Szulkin (1950 - 2018) was a screenwriter, film and theatre director, and educator. He studied painting in Warsaw and film in Lodz, where he has been teaching since the 1990s. He has been involved in feature cinema since the late 1970s and became famous mainly for his sci-fi work.

more about film

director:	Piotr Szulkin
script:	Piotr Szulkin
photography:	Jacek Zygadło
editing:	Agnieszka Bojanowska
music:	Jerzy Maksymiuk
sound:	Jan Freda

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