Wartime Portraits: Women

Wartime Portraits: Women

2023
📺 1 Season
🎬 5 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 PL
⏱️ 31 min/episode
DocumentaryWar & Politics
A documentary series about heroines of the II World War. Stories told from the perspective of the characters are full of emotions and tension, they show courage, sacrifice, willpower but also recklessness or pragmatism. Characters of the series are not flawless monuments but regular women with their own problems, who happened to play an important role in the history. The visual style of the project is animadoc. It comprises archival materials, interviews with experts, and sequences of fictionalised scenes: shots stylised as comic frames, where an actor is connected with scenography hand-drawn by comics illustrators.

Seasons

Season 1
2023 • 5 Episodes
Halina Szymanska (1906 - 1989) wife of the last Polish military attaché in Berlin. After the outbreak of WWII, she meets admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr. As a result of this meeting, Halina becomes a Polish-British MI6 spy.

Crew

Producer
Dawid Janicki, Krystyna Kantor, Joanna Szymańska

Network

TVP VOD

Keywords

world war iiwartimecross dressingdocudramathird reich (iii reich 1933-45)women's suffrage19th centurywomen's history20th centuryglobal feminism