3rd of August, 12:00 p.m.

Probably it’s one of the last interviews with Jerzy Stefan Stawiński conducted in 2008 by Piotr Marecki from the Kraków Screenwriter’s School. He told about the profession of a screenwriter in Poland, about Polish Film School, about Andrzej Munk, Andrzej Wajda, Aleksander Ford, about the screenwriters’ revolt and film adaptations of literary works. He lifted the curtain of screenwriting, giving priceless clues for young generations of screenwriters.

„Apart from being staged, the scripts based on my stories haven’t been changed by Wajda and Munk. They haven’t added any new concepts. It’s clear they created film reality. I have never claimed that a script is a separate literary form, although sometimes it can be. In classical cinematography a film script is considered a separate composition which also possesses matter. The form is added later by the director and only then is it attached to the matter, forming a piece of art.”- Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (a fragment of the Cinema Lesson)