Hear My Cry

The documentary film about Ryszard Siwiec – the man who doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire in front of a crowd of thousands during the 1968 harvest festival at the 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw. On the basis of preserved documents, confessions of family and friends, and eyewitness accounts of the event, the filmmaker attempts to answer the question what were Siwiec's motives. The film ends with a shocking, accidentally twisted, several dozen-second archival sequence from the 10th-Anniversary Stadium – the moment of Ryszard Siwiec's self-immolation.