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"Life is bearable. At times..." The first and the only documentary on the Grand Dame of world poetry Wislawa Szymborska, 1996 Nobel Prize Winner in literature! Ms. Szymborska has always carefully protected her privacy, especially since the Nobel Prize put her in a rather dramatic spotlight. But this new 73-minute documentary by Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska of TVN Television in Poland offers a rare glimpse of Ms. Szymborska in her everyday life: among friends, during several trips abroad, when publicly reading her magnificent poems and composing limericks, or when shopping for the curiosities and souvenirs she is famous for collecting. The film also features interviews with some of Ms. Szymborska's favorite people - Woody Allen, Umberto Eco, Vaclav Havel, and Jane Goodall - who speak about the mystery of her poetry and her unique vision of the world