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His Last Will

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On 8 September 1968,
Ryszard Siwiec set himself alight in the Warsaw stadium in protest against his country's involvement in the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Two days earlier, he made a tape recording explaining his action. In this English version of Maciej Drygas's Italia Prize-winning documentary, the story is told through the tape,
Polish archives and the family he left behind.

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Ryszard Siwiec
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