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GDANSK - GOLDEN CITY OF THE BALTIC SEA

GDAŃSK - GOLDENE STADT AN DER OSTSEE

By Edward POREMBNY

Documentary - Completed 2019

This is a documentary film about one of the most interesting cities and its vibrant population of the northern Europe, situated on the Baltic Sea.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY, POLAND
- Languages
- GERMAN, POLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 47 mn
- Director(s)
- Edward POREMBNY
- Synopsis
- In our film we are going to discover Gdańsk as a cultural, scientific and marine economic centre and communication hub of northern Poland with its large commercial port. Nowadays, we can easily see that Gdańsk is the city of over a thousand years of history whose identity has been influenced by many different cultures over the centuries. Gdańsk is considered a symbolic place of the outbreak of The World War II and the beginning of the fall of the communism.
  
  This beautiful city on the Baltic coast lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea, in a conurbation with the industrial city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, they form together a metropolitan area called the Tricity with a population approaching 1.4 million.
  Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River, connected to the Vistula River, which drains 60 percent of Poland and connects Gdańsk with the Polish capital, Warsaw.
  In the interwar period, owing to its multi ethnic make-up and history, Gdańsk as the Free City of Danzig lays in a disputed region between Poland and the Weimar Republic, and later Germany. Today we can easy see the different leavings of those times in the form of the buildings reconstructed in historical style that we are going to film in the most spectacular and attractive way. In the 1980s Gdańsk would become the birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which played a major role in bringing an end to the Communist rule in Poland and helped precipitate the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The spectacular shipyard that has been the catalyst of this movement is still there and it will be film using the new technology for aerial filming that gives a fantastic opportunity to expose visually the splendour of the heavy industrial time.
  The city also hosts St. Dominic's Fair, which dates back to 1260, and is regarded as one of the biggest trade and cultural events in Europe, and is also the home of the world’ largest international Amber fairs, AMBERIF Amberexpo. Finally, next to Gdańsk stretches unique in the world Hel Peninsula that we are going to film from the bird's point of view.