Jan Nowak Jezioranski with his newly-wed wife
“The Epidemic of Love” is a new documentary directed by Maciej Piwowarczuk which portrays the love stories that took place during the Warsaw Rising.
The main characters of the documentary are seven couples - Warsaw Rising survivors and their families who tell their love stories. They include Bill and Lilly Biega who emigrated to the US after the war, Roza Nowotna, a nurse from a field hospital and Jan Nowak Jezioranski, the famous “Courier from Warsaw” and the former head of the Polish Section of Radio Free Europe.
The 50-minute-long documentary was shot in Warsaw, Opole and the United States where some of the survivors of the Warsaw Rising still live. The footage includes materials from the archives of both Polish Radio and state Television TVP. 256 couples got married during the Warsaw Rising.
Click on the audio icon to listen to the report by Danuta Isler.