Films by Michael Majerski

Germany 2013, 75 min
by Michael Majerski

Following World War II., Upper Silesia became Polish. Millions of people from the annexed Eastern Polish territories were forcibly resettled here. They brought their language and their culture into this new, foreign world, and immediately collided with the traditions of the local population. From then on, old and new inhabitants, victors and vanquished had to live as next-door neighbours. However, even today, they cannot seem to build any sort of community. Since almost 70 years the history of U

2010, 70 min
by Michael Majerski

Feature documentary film about the problems of identity of the people living in Upper Silesia region nowadays and about the trals to protect what has been left after years of Germanisation and Polonisation of Upper Silesia. The film tells the story of the effects of war on the inhabitians of Upper Silesia and asks a question about the future of Upper silesia as an antonomous region.The film is also a colage of multilingual Upper-Silesian biographies and personal look behind the scenes of a fasci

Germany 2008, 84 min
by Michael Majerski

The last remaining witnesses who could not leave the former German territories at the end of World War II talk about their first encounters with the new Polish resettlers who took over their homes and farms in 1945. What distinguishes My Father's House from other films about this subject matter is the direct confrontation between the former enemies. For the first time, Polish witnesses break their long silence to tell what they saw back then.original version with German and Polish subtitles avai