Leave No Traces is a story about a tyrannical system, versions of which still operate in so many places around the world. The gripping real-life national scandal begins in Poland on May 12, 1983. High-spirited high school student Grzegorz Przemyk is in Warsaw’s Old Town with friends to celebrate passing his exams, when he is stopped and asked for his identity card. At the time, martial law was suspended and carrying an ID at all times was not necessary. Przemyk knew this and argued for his rights as a citizen. Angry at being countered, the militia members haul him and his friend Jurek to their headquarters where he is brutally beaten. Jurek is the only witness. In the aftermath, the oppressive regime uses the secret service, the media and the courts to threaten Jurek and other people close to the case, including his parents and Przemyk’s mother, activist and poet Barbara Sadowska.
Director Biography
Born in Katowice, Jan P. Matuszynski and studied Film and Television Directing at the Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School. He is the director of the documentary Deep Love (2012) and the features The Last Family (2016) and Leave No Traces (2021), as well as numerous short films and television shows.
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