Nocna zmiana (1995)

Directed by

Michal Balcerzak, Jacek Kurski

Genre

documentary film

Country

Poland

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Polish documentary examines the night in 1992 when parliament voted out Prime Minister Olszewski's government. It focuses on a recorded meeting between key politicians and argues the vote aimed to stop a law that would reveal secret files on communist-era collaborators.

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What happens

Nocna zmiana (Night Shift) is a 1995 Polish documentary film about the events of the night 4 June 1992 when a coalition of Polish parliamentary forces voted no confidence in Olszewski's government, presenting is as a sort of coup. It was directed by Michał Balcerzak. The documentary revolves around the recording of an open meeting of Donald Tusk, Lech Wałęsa, and Waldemar Pawlak. The film's thesis is that the goal was removing Olszewski's government before it passed a law allowing the public to see top secret government archives listing communist collaborators, allegedly including Lech Wałęsa as a paid informer of the communist government. Olszewski's minority government was removed from power and the law was never passed. 20 years later, the widow of the communist Minister of Internal Affairs, Kiszczak, a person responsible for at least 200 murders, tried to sell documents allegedly showing Walesa's collaboration and was detained for illegal possession of top secret archives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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