I came to Warsaw to portray the first anniversary of a death of polish president and 95 other officials who died in a plane crash in Smolensk in April 2010. I wanted to examine how crazy people can go in a crowd lead by politicians and being wound up by media. Polish nation, especially in moments like this, is extremely emotional and in my view loses the ability to think straight.
This essay is not objective. I admit - being polish I took one of the sides. I couldn't help myself seeing what was going on, hearing what people were saying to one another. It was supposed to be a collective mourning in the crowd. People apparently wanted to be together in this hard time. I didn't, however, see anything else apart from political campaign and smiles on people's faces when they saw the twin brother of the dead president who was calling for nothing else but hate.
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