The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles is the venue tonight of a Polish film promotion gala.

The event is organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Film Institute to mark the 30th anniversary of Solidarity and takes its motto – ‘How to overthrow a totalitarian regime using a home-made amplifier’ – from the subtitle to the documentary film Beats of Freedom, which shows the history of Polish rock music under communism and its role in the struggle for freedom.

The screening of the film’s abbreviated version will be followed by a panel with the participation of Jacek Borcuch, the director of All That I Love, the Polish candidate for an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category. 

Its promotional campaign is in the hands of the Los Angeles-based company Block Korenbrot and is held under the motto ‘Poland 1981. Solidarity is on the move. Every movement begins with its own sound’.

The action of All That I Love is set in the spring of 1981, during the Solidarity revolution in Poland. Its protagonists are four teenagers who form a punk group that allows them to express their longing for freedom and rebellion toward the grey socialist reality that surrounds them.

Their words and music find appreciation at a music festival in a nearby town, and there they can see the thousands of punk rock fans that share their feelings. One of the boys, a son of an army officer, falls in love with a daughter of a Solidarity activist. The film shows how politics interferes with the private lives of people and families. 

All That I Love is to be shown in a cinema in Santa Monica on 10-16 January 2011.  (mk)