Beats of Freedom documents three decades on the Polish music scene, zoning in on the 1980s with Solidarity and then martial law becoming a background for the rock explosion with groups such as Maanam, Perfect, Republika, TSA or Turbo, later punk rock (Kryzys, Brygada Kryzys, Dezerter); and taking in the phenomenon of the music festival at Jarocin. 

Beats of Freedom was produced by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute with commercial television TVN. Directed by Leszek Gnoiński and Wojciech Słota, and presented by British journalist Chris Salewicz, it already collected a special prize at the Polish Film Festival in Chicago last year. 

 The film is accompanied with a special album of the soundtrack music and opens in Poland on March 12. Elżbieta Krajewska talks to driving force behind the film, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Paweł Potoroczyn. 

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