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Give me coal! or Mr Witold

Meeting with the author, screening and debate with Orgia Myśli

Through his short quasi-documentary movie, Marcin Jażyński in various ways attempts to reconstruct the figure of Mr. Witold, a writer, tennis player and parking controller. The writer himself tries to prevent this reconstruction in any way he can.

Mr Witold is an amateur tennis player, writer, marathon runner and declared self-learner. On Tuesdays and Thursdays he works as a parking controller, on other days of the week he deals with tennis court maintenance. Pulling a shaft of over 100 kilos, he alternately quotes Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and excerpts from his own novel entitled Węgla! [Give me coal!]. He is much invloved in the critique of Aristotle’s theory of the state, but drops it quickly to joke salaciously with his friend, young female clerk at the Społem grocery store the very next moment. Likes beer, smokes “Mocne” cigarettes and runs marathons under 3 hours 30 minutes.