Insomnia

Leonard Borkowicz was born in 1912 into Jewish family settled in Vienna. In the fall of 1989 he committed suicide in Warsaw. As a young boy he was fascinated by the communist ideology. In the age of 16 he became a member of Polish Communist Party. After WWII held important party and state positions. He was the first Polish Governor of Szczecin, ambassador in Prague, the chairman of the Central Office of Cinematography, the Chief Editor of Publishing House. And then, in his later life he cancelled it all. He rejected this lethal ideology which had seduced him in his youth. He greeted the collapse of the communism as the moment of illumination and freedom.