Łowcy skór . Skin Hunters
Duration: 01:29:00 A film based on one of the biggest and most shocking corruption scandals in post-socialist Poland. In 2001 paramedics of a Łódź emergency ambulance service were accused of killing their own patients. They were tempted to do so, because they had started to function as agents for fu...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Polish |
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RML Entertainment
2003
Poland |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:1cbc11ba-db13-4785-8340-dcc2a73189ad |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:29:00
A film based on one of the biggest and most shocking corruption scandals in post-socialist Poland. In 2001 paramedics of a Łódź emergency ambulance service were accused of killing their own patients. They were tempted to do so, because they had started to function as agents for funeral parlors, receiving money for information on deaths (i.e. “skins”) and forcing families to use a particular funeral parlor. In a number of instances they started “producing the skins”, i.e. not helping patients in critical states, or even giving them lethal drugs. This “skin trade” was uncovered by local journalists, and Marek, the main character in this quasi-documentary, is a journalist who discovers the shocking truth behinds a death of his colleague Piotr. Piotr had an riding accident, but then died unexpectedly on the way to the hospital. Marek cannot believe it was possible and soon learns that Piotr was working on a article about a shocking corruption scandal involving the emergency ambulance service, and his death was indeed not accidental. |
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| Published: | 2003 |