Wearing a Four-Cornered Cap and a Tiger Skin / 13 Years, 13 Minutes

WEARING A FOUR-CORNERED CAP AND A TIGER SKIN (WROGATYWCE I TYGRYSIEJ SKORZE), 2008, 56 min. Dir. Jerzy Lubach. This film presents the little-known story of Georgian officers who fought in the ranks of the Polish Army, Home Army and Polish Armed Forces during WWII. "Polish" Georgians, loyal to the country that had accepted them, proved their heroism during the September 1939 defense campaign and later in occupied Poland and on the western fronts.

13 YEARS, 13 MINUTES, 2007, 49 min. Dir. Marek Maldis. A story of two boys caught up in the turmoil of the dramatic events of 1956 in Central Europe. At 13, Romek Strzalkowski was the youngest victim of the first workers' rebellion against Communist authorities in Poland. On June 26, he was killed protesting near the UB political police headquarters. Peter Mansfeld was the youngest victim of post-revolt Communist reprisals in Hungary. After the revolution had been quelled by the Soviet army in 1956, he did not give up.