Professor Stanislaw (2007)

Stanislaw Brzozowski is one of the world's few professors of mime art. He currently works at the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm. The film tells in vivid scenes about the importance of the body for the spoken word. - The students can talk, I know, but can they use themselves, their bodies, their movements to give weight to the words or to complicate the superficial meaning of the words? Stanislaw came to Sweden during the reddest time in Swedish theatre. He talks about how difficult it was to understand the left-wing political pressure that was on Swedish theater at the time. SB was educated in Poland and worked in Wroclaw. He was part of the world-famous Henryk Tomaszewski's mime ensemble until he left Poland for Sweden in 1969. Stanislaw is an active member of one of Stockholm's shooting clubs. He shows in the film that aiming and shooting is the same as loading a line that will carry all the way to the audience in the theater hall. - You can't just throw out a line at random and think it's right, he says. Using his own body as a means of expression, Stanislaw Brosowski offers us a fascinating insight into the innermost core of acting. Actor Dan Ekborg still remembers Stanislaw's harsh teaching. - You never knew if he was joking, so it was safest to do as he said.