The history of Poland is not easy. In Poznań, exactly 97 years ago, the Greater Poland Uprising took place.
Thanks to the initiative of Lech Poznan football club fans, a special event is organized every year on the day of the anniversary. Fans light flares on city streets, every year on a larger scale. Exactly at 16:40 (which symbolizes the moment of the uprising on 27 December 1918), the fans take to the streets and intersections, thereby paralyzing traffic for a minute, holding up flares.
The visual effect is amazing. The red glow and smoke from the flares pay great honor to the fallen heroes. Residents took to the streets with Polish flags. After a minute, the flares go off, and the city returns to its normal life.
We decided to show our kids that you have to remember the history. Even if the media don’t publish much information about it. It’s not a big production that requires a lot of preparation – this time it was a lesson in patriotism.
The city authorities set up a tent on Freedom Square with insurgent memorabilia, where you could make a postcard and take a photo for an insurgent ID card. We made these souvenirs ourselves! In front of the tent, a hologram of an insurgent was set up. It talked about the uprising and sang the Greater Poland Marseillaise.
This song is the background music for our movie: