What develops children more - expensive toys from the store or the lack of them? Is a child's imagination more stimulated by complex electronic inventions or a self-built simple radio receiver? "Toys" is a documentary about how and what ...See moreWhat develops children more - expensive toys from the store or the lack of them? Is a child's imagination more stimulated by complex electronic inventions or a self-built simple radio receiver? "Toys" is a documentary about how and what today's leaders of the creative class played with. The everyday day of Polish children, as everywhere, was school and the family home. The free hours set aside for play were a period of unfettered freedom that could not be impeded by the vile and propaganda-marked quality of toys, or lack thereof. Polish toys were somewhat different from their peers in the West. They were simpler and made of inferior materials, sometimes gifts from abroad, sometimes fakes of Western toys made by Polish craftsmen. Very often they were simply toys made with their own hands by children or their relatives. A comb and a few coins, a piece of underwear gum, some kind of caps, and finally, a whisker as a place of entertainment, social life and initiation. The anthropological connection between the phenomenon of today's Polish creativity and the poverty of childhood toys. Play is an elementary need of any culture that escapes all attempts at control and always remains a sphere of personal freedom. This is a film about how Polish children of the communist era, with sticks and wire, learned independence and independent thinking.
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