Beksinsky. Album wideofoniczny

There was a young painter; first he struggled, then he became famous, then he came of age, got married, and had a son. The boy also wanted to paint but there seemed to be too little room in the family for two painters so he became a radio DJ and a music journalist. He also came of age and then he committed suicide, leaving his father alone, consumed by guilt (later, in an event not pictured in the film, the father would be killed in his home by juvenile delinquents). 

While the older Zdzisław Beksiński learned to channel his melancholy into art, his son Tomek found no way to fight depression. Both left many hours of video and audio footage that were turned into a family saga of pictures and sounds by the director Marcin Borchardt. Just like in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, the family that could have lived happily down the years heads towards its downfall during the last years of the stagnating socialist Poland. 

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