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by auganov 1428 days ago
20M to put a bunch of easily available communist movies (to which they already owned copyrights?!) on a website. Why not "preserve heritage" by "restoring" pre-war movies that have been mostly forgotten and actually do need some real restoring? Could probably restore all of them for a few M tops. Sounds like a typical EU grafting scheme. This would never get funded without EU $.
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Anti-communist movies. https://culture.pl/en/article/the-most-powerful-films-from-b...

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/there-was-jazz

>Young musicians in Łódź play jazz. At first, they do it offstage, then semi-officially, and finally they are trying to find a place for a concert. As it is forbidden in the Stalinist Poland, they lose their jobs, places at universities and their girls. Music is the only thing that cannot be taken away from them.

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/interrogation

>Antonina Dziwisz, a cabaret artist, travels around Poland with the cabaret group. Unexpectedly, she is arrested and involved in the Stalinist political trial. The woman does not succumb to violence, despite humiliation, threats and brutal punishments.

Not to mention plenty of movies from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_moral_anxiety

Tоварищ auganov ты потерялся?

Perhaps those movies are next :) … and it seems to me you could make this argument about any positive action, if you wanted.