How it's done

Media advisor Piotr Tymochowicz has based his career on the assertion that anybody can be made into a politician, if they follow certain techniques and strategies. This idea is the basis for a course in the communication skills needed to get ahead in the media sphere, as well as training in the organisation and effective running of demonstrations.

Thanks to the fact the film's maker has gone through the whole course with the other students, the viewer becomes a direct participant. We have the chance therefore to watch the development of the malleable Dariusz, who completely models himself on the consultant. He enters politics and his career is developing promisingly.

The film shows that apparently spontaneous behaviour is nothing but a play of trained gestures, attitudes, a perfectly structured dance in which not a single movement can be changed.

This film is proof not only of the fact that is very easy to manipulate a crowd, but also that a manipulator can himself be a mere puppet who is lead by a desire for success at any price.

The partner of the screening is the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World.