
Portrait of Andrzej Mleczko - cartoonist and painter. Andrzej Titkow, a documentary filmmaker, is interested in Mleczko's satirical drawings which were extremely popular in the 1970s. With a seemingly reporter-like camera, he films the opening of an exhibition of his works and stages the situations drawn by the artist.

Portrait of Andrzej Mleczko - cartoonist and painter. Andrzej Titkow, a documentary filmmaker, is interested in Mleczko's satirical drawings which were extremely popular in the 1970s. With a seemingly reporter-like camera, he films the opening of an exhibition of his works and stages the situations drawn by the artist.
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