Symfonia Fabryki Ursus

Every single one of the 100 tractors, produced by over 20,000 workers in this factory every single day, was bursting with strength. For those involved the work was much more than just a means of earning a living. They were proud of what they achieved. They filled this huge industrial area with life, were more a community than simply colleagues, they cried and sang together. This era is coming to an end. At the same time those, in whose houses the candles trembled when the large metal press in the factory went to work, are growing older. In Jaśmina Wójcik's documentary we get to know some of those people whose homeland is gradually falling into disrepair. The protagonists look back with a warm melancholy rather than with a sense of grief. With the collapse of the old East their world is disappearing. This is a realisation with an unsavoury aftertaste, summed up by one of the factory workers in the film as follows: “Democracy is for them, the poeple in power. Not for us, the working class." DD