Fourth Partition (2013)

Original title

The Fourth Partition

Directed by

Adrian Prawica

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the first big wave of Polish immigrants who came to the United States between 1870 and 1920. It focuses on their lives and impact in Chicago and beyond.

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What happens

The Fourth Partition is a documentary film about the history of Poles in Chicago and the United States. Its focus is on the first wave of over 4,000,000 Poles who migrated from Poland between 1870 and 1920. This film was produced in 2013 by Amerykafilm LLC., (Adrian Prawica – Director and Editor, Rafał Muskała – Associate Producer, Mirek Miyo Mardosz, Andrzej Krzeptowski-Bohac, Jeton Murtishi, Sławomir Bielawiec, and Jan Zienko – music). The world premiere was on November 8, 2013, as part of the 25th Polish Film Festival in America (Chicago), where the film received the "Discovering Eye Award". It was also awarded with "Best Documentary Debut" at the 20th Polish Film Festival in Ann Arbor (Michigan). The film won the popular award at the 3rd Annual Polish Film festival in Vancouver, Ca. (2014). Adrian Prawica was awarded the Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award from the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences in America (2014), and the Creative Arts Prize from the Polish American Historical Association (2015). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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