PJFM In Conversation
Krzysztof Lang, Director of MARCH ’68
Lindy SpringFest 2023
Rabbi Geri Newburge of Main Line Reform Temple interviews Krzysztof Lang, director of MARCH ’68, to discuss his riveting, romantic new film. Opening Night of PJFM’s Lindy SpringFest 2023.
1968. Warsaw, Poland. Hania, a happy-go-lucky, aspiring actress, typically avoids the increasingly discriminatory rhetoric from her country’s government. The same goes for the charming Janek, a tech student. After meeting at a play one night, the two are instantly smitten with each other. Hania’s evasion of her country’s politics, however, changes when her father, a secretly Jewish man, is targeted by the government for his Zionist beliefs. The government’s increasingly antisemitic ideology puts her father, as well as Hania and her mother, at risk of deportation. Can the lovers circumvent their situation and live the rest of their lives together? Beautifully filmed with hip music and superb performances, MARCH ’68 is a timeless love story, a tale of romance jeopardized by a messy array of governmental beliefs and diatribe. Director Krzysztof Lang takes a magnifying glass to post-WWII Poland and brilliantly shows the tumult of the late 60s, a decade of anger, injustice, and courage from its citizens, just people hoping to move on with their lives.