Marta Balaga Dedicated to the story that shook up Poland in 1983, when high-schooler Grzegorz Przemyk was beaten to death by militia, Venice’s main competition entry “Leave No Traces” is not your usual historical movie, argued helmer Jan P.
Matuszyński during the press conference.“I see parallels between the case of Grzegorz Przemyk and the case of George Floyd,” he said.
Floyd’s murder at the hands of a police officer was filmed by teenage Darnella Frazier, Przemyk’s ordeal was witnessed by a close friend.
As recounted in Cezary Łazarewicz’s non-fiction book “Leave No Traces. The Case of Grzegorz Przemyk,” the tragedy – and the trial that followed – sparked widespread protests yet the culprits were never sentenced.
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