"Documentary Film Studio" "presents" "The Carpenter" "I was born in 1905 in the Praga district." "I know every stone here, and every stone knows me." "We played thieves and policemen here." "In 1906, my father, Vincent, passed away, and one year later, my mother, Bronislawa Cieslak." "My inheritance was my Fatherland without a patrimony." "As a child, I worked at a sawmill in Radzyminska St." "This is how I came to love wood." "Jan Stasiak, the owner, taught me how to use the lath 7 Korsaka St." "In 1925, Father Stanislaw Wszola persuaded me to join the Polish Socialist Party in 23 Chocimska St." "Orders came streaming." "I began to enjoy life." "As a qualified carpenter and a handyman," "I made arm stands in the army." "That's when I met my current wife, Kazimiera, and my friend, Stefan Pach." "I left the 7th Uhlans Regiment in 1932, with a rank of a Senior Shooter." "The Dana Choir" "In 1940, at the beginning of German occupation," "I bought a workbench, very cheaply and put it in my flat in 3 Oleandry St., ground floor, over the bakery." "Most work involved making compartments for hiding things from the Germans." "They were in coal trunks, pastry boards, brooms, flowerpot stands and many other things." "I remember the addresses where I took those things but I won't tell anyone because I'm bound by a professional secret." "When I switched to 3-door wardrobes the Uprising broke out." "I was employed by Bogdan Kisiel from 7 Wlochowska St." "Together with my apprentice, Stefan Wach, I made coffins and crosses for the fallen uprisers." "Stefan Wach wrote on plaques for the crosses." "I saw the Soviet liberation in 56 Tyniecka St." "I was still making hiding compartments out of habit." "But there was no demand for them." "I went back to making tables, chairs and wardrobes, which was a good business in those hard days." "I finally got the business off the ground but at the beginning of 1953, I had to shut it down as it was private initiative." "I got a state job in 16 Senatorska St, where I worked as a night porter." "I've outlived a number of people in my life, including Stefan Wach." "In October, 1956" "I was told to go back to my profession and make soft upholstered furniture." "December 1970." "I felt it very strongly, as everyone else." "From that moment I was only making hallway wall-cabinets for blocks of flats of Warsaw inhabitants." "And my question is:" "Why being a qualified carpenter do I have to live in such a small flat?" "12 square metres." "How did those boys, that is my son, Geniek, age 35 and Roman, age 27, do their homework in there?" "How are their parents living their last years?" "That is their father, a carpenter, and their mother, Kazimiera?" "Written and directed by" "Photography" "Music" "Editing" "Sound" "Sound editing" "Production management" "In conjunction with" "Distribution"