"It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality."

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"It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality."

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"There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers."

Money

"As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality."

Vision

"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."

Perception

"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way."

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"With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV."

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"It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well."

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"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre."

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"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."

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"It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality."

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"One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding."

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