Synopsis
A strong, funny woman of action, the heroine of my childhood, my aunt Niuśka lives in a small village in eastern Poland. One day she confessed to me that she had never been happy in her life. Would it have been different if, like me, she had left the country in search of happiness in the West? If she had emancipated herself from the conservative values that still constrain Polish society today?
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Director
Marzena Sowa
Born in Poland in 1979, Marzena Sowa came to France in 2001 to study at the Michel de Montaigne University in Bordeaux to complete her studies in modern literature, which she began in Krakow. It was while recounting her childhood in Communist Poland in the 1980s to Sylvain Savoia that the idea of adapting her story into a comic strip was born. The result in 2004 was the first volume of Marzi, published by Dupuis. The series went on to run for 7 instalments, before being adapted into a three-volume graphic novel. Internationally acclaimed, this comic autobiography was nominated for both the Angoulême Comics Festival and the Eisner Prize. Marzena then moved into film. The Godmother is her second documentary film.