Section: Regio: Silesia

GORĄCZKA SOBOTNIEGO POPOŁUDNIA

SATURDAY AFTERNOON FEVER

Kornel Miglus
Poland, 2000, 42 Min

These days football is an insane business model with unimaginable money transfers, and with the stars and the Champions League a multidimensional advertising machine that can be hardly avoided – global entertainment without end.

Football along with coal mining is a key part of the Upper Silesian identity and a role model of the region. The Silesian clubs dominated the Polish league for decades. The collapse of the socialist system was also the downfall of these clubs. It wasn’t different for the small team of Ruch Radzionków. But the provincial club caused a sensation in the Polish football scene for several seasons due to the unparalleled commitment of the local small businesses.

This film tells about the love for the club, about values, from which professional football today has long distanced itself, and about football as a culture and meaningful power in the local community. KM

Filmformat
Digi Beta | Doc | Farbe / Colour
Drehbuch
Kornel Miglus
Kamera
Krzysztof Miller
Produzent
Piotr Lenar
Kontakt
Telewizja Polska S.A.
Adam Łukaszek
Woronicza 17
00999 Warsaw
Poland
+48 32 547 76 50
Adam.Lukaszek@tvp.pl
www.tvp.pl
Kornel Miglus

Kornel Miglus - born in 1957 in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland. He studied philosophy, linguistics and psychology in Poland, Germany and the USA. Since 1994 he has been film commissioner of the Polish Institute Berlin and since 2005 artistic director of the festival filmPOLSKA in Berlin. He is also director, author and producer of several films. In 2001 he founded the film production company VACANT.

Movies
DIE MUSE (1994)
DIE POLEN VOM POTSDAMER PLATZ (1997, doc)
DAY IN, DAY OUT (2001, doc)
BULGARIEN STORIES (2006/07, doc)
WIR BERLINER (2009, doc)