Marian Marzynski was born in Poland and survived the Holocaust as a Jewish child hidden by Christians. He has been making documentary films for almost 30 years, first in Poland, then in Denmark, and for the last 20 years in the United States. In Poland, during the '60s he was one of the pioneers of "cinema verite". Today, he is a major contributor of documentaries to such PBS series as The American Experience, NOVA and Frontline. Two of his other documentaries : Return to Poland (1982), and Jewish Mother (1984), dealt with the subject of Holocaust. The three hour long Shtetl, became Marian's "labour of love", the most important work of his career. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1982 and won two Emmy Awards for his documentaries. In 2004 he produced Ja, Gombro, for ARTE and the Polish Television.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.