"The Power Was in the Conversations, So I Knew I Had to Help the Viewer to Hear Them": Tomasz Wolski on his Doc Fortnight-Debuting 1970

Tomasz Wolski's 1970 is a riveting work of ingenious artistry. (And one of the highlights of last November's IDFA, where it screened in the Best of Fests section.) It was during that chaotic titular year that food prices skyrocketed, and Gdansk's striking shipyard workers would spark nationwide protests across Poland, which would culminate in the triumphal Solidarity movement a decade later -- but not before the Communist leaders at the time decided to quash the threatening uprising with lethal ...