TVP amazed me very much. As part of the series tv Theatre, the premiere of the performance “Hotel Korfanty” directed by Robert Talarczyk took place. It's a very well done, very well played and very crucial performance.
Many people in our environment were skeptical about this task due to the author and director, who were far from being seen by the Endek glasses. This drama is written by Artur Palyga – writer “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Tygodnik Powszechny”, founder of the Teodor Sixt Text Theatre in Bielsko Biała. The manager is Robert Talarczyk manager of Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice. By many people he was identified with the environments of the Silesian autonomousists, he was honored by the “Gazeta Wyborcza” brick Janoszha.
The performance was prepared by TVP in cooperation with the St. Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice and OTV Katowice. He greatly reproduced the character of Wojciech Korfanty Dariusz Chojnacki. Michał Piotrowski (the boy of Zbigniew), Grzegorz Przybył (Józef Piłsudski) and Cezary Studniak (Vitkacy) besides played well. The author of the photos is Marek Traskowski. Scenography and costumes were designed by Marcel Sławinski and Katarzyna Sobańska. The music was composed by Miłosz “Miuosh” Borycki. The scenes were shot at the Palace in Świerklaniec.
Sick Corfanty leaves the sanctimonious prison in July 1939. He is staying at the European Hotel. Indeed, after his freedom, he stayed in this hotel. It's the time before his agony, he's already in terrible shape. His condition most likely caused him to be released. He's reasoning about the past. Retrospections go back to different periods of his life. We see him as a child, a young man, the dictator of the uprising, a prisoner of Bereza, a man destroyed by sanitized ducks. The viewer has the chance to know the causes and consequences of various decisions made by the National Leader of the advanced Silesians. His agonal visions are an chance for a life account of conscience and conversations with those who influenced his life.
Among another things, Korfanty conducts a much explaining conversation with Józef Piłsudski. Very crucial is the fact that Piłsudski talks to him while washing in the bathtub. This scene shows the disrespectful attitude of a self-appointed marshal to his political competitors. In my opinion, it has shown reasonably the differences in the mentality and course of action of both politicians. He besides talks to Jan Kustos – in his youth an endek, later a Silesian autonomousist. This is the most vivid example showing the disappointed hopes of many Silesians, including insurgents placed in Poland. Lloyd George, Le Rond, Tomassini, Lieberman, Witkacy, the prison defender from Brest or the advanced Silesian uprising appear in highly bitter memories and visions. He talks to his wife Elizabeth, daughter Marysia and boy Zbigniew.
It's a very sad spectacle. Wojciech Korfanty with his superhuman stubbornness caused that the most economically attractive part of advanced Silesia came to Poles over a century ago. Sanctional Poland underestimated this. She humiliated him, blocked him, banished him to exile and put him in jail. possibly she did. Dr. Bolesław Szarecki in 1939 said that ulceration of the liver reminded him of symptoms of arsenic poisoning. Rumor has it that the cell walls in which he was held were covered with arsenic solution. specified an opinion was common – said Władysław Tempka, Vincenty Witos and Stanisław Grabski. Even if it's just a rumor, the actions of the volleys and the spilts accelerated his death. The protagonist of the performance is Wojciech Korfanty – but at the same time it is simply a performance about advanced Silesian people who remained faithful to Poland. He was loyal to the Homeland, who did not realize him and did not want to realize him in either II or III of Poland. Many ducks treated this region as a land to be demolished, and the natives were treated at least suspiciously.
In the mindset of the Vulcans, nothing has changed. Just mention Jarosław Kaczyński and his "hidden German option". Korfanty himself was to talk to the poet and prosaik Juliusz Żuławski, the celebrated sentence: “Well, you see, Mr Julius, how Poland paid me...”
I am very glad that TVP has brought this drama to a wide audience. It shows the past of Silesia, but besides the full sanitation of Poland from another side. This is not another frosted communicative about a good grandpa in uniform, who himself chopped up Poland's saber independence. The way of reasoning of the advanced Silesia national leader, but besides his attitude towards politics, the nearest family, or the Catholic Church, was well illustrated. The show showed the drama of the dictator of the Silesian uprising – but through this besides dramas of thousands of people who fought for another Poland. Talarczyk managed to show Korfanty as a man of blood and bone, with vices, vices, large ambitions, uncompromising dictator – not only during the uprising and plebiscite. He wasn't made another world.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
