Book premiere: June 17, Krzysztof Zanussi’s 85th birthday.

Marek, a boy with glasses and a crooked bite, stood in front of Krzysztof Zanussi’s villa in 2001. For a moment he hesitated whether to call, but he entered the famous director’s house via what he thought was the longest staircase in the world. And that’s how it started.

In the book you will learn, among others, about:
– How Władysław Bartoszewski knelt on one knee before the “all-powerful” president.
– How Leszek Kołakowski wanted to become a circus performer and at a meeting with John Paul II he gave him a handwritten excommunication to sign.
– How a certain postwoman came to confession to Artur Barciś and told an extraordinary story about love.
– How Helena Vondráčková wanted to sing in a barn in Świnoujście.
– How a monk assured that sex is divine.
– What was the greatest shame and embarrassment for Andrzej Wajda?
– What did Mrs. Danuta Wałęsa answer to the question: is it possible to love a politician?
– What is a surefire formula for achieving happiness in life?
– What’s a surefire recipe for wasting your life?

Since 2002, Marek Ratajczak, together with Krzysztof Zanussi, has been co-creating the CTN foundation, which aims to promote knowledge and a creative lifestyle. His passion became helping young people achieve the greatness to which they are called. “We open windows where doors are closed” – is the foundation’s slogan.