PL 1988 | Director, Script: Irena Kamieńska | Camera: Krzysztof Pakulski | Editor: Jadwiga Zajiček | Production: Zbigniew Domagalski | b/w | 35mm | 15 min | polish OV with english SUB + german SUB | Archive International Short Film Festival Oberhausen / Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych

Just one year before the first free election of 1989, Kamieńska once again turns her gaze to the emancipated female, to produce this moving portrayal of women, who under Communism, assumed male jobs. It is as much a story of female strength and persistence as it is of women’s exploitation in the job market. (Anna Misiak, womenundercommunism.com)

Multi-award-winning hardcore realism from Kamieńska, who passed away in 2016, a swansong to the reality of the socialist heroine known as the “working woman” in all its impossible distance from the totality of emancipatory ideals: a joyless reality, according to the director, lonely and without perspective. (Barbara Wurm, goEast – Festival des Mittel- und Osteuropäischen Films, Wiesbaden)