– The whole criminal element in the film "Jaskółka" took place once somewhere, not here but in America and had a strong impact on me. I was surfing on the net and I came across Stan Borys song, which hit me like lightning. I listened to it again and again, and the story read once in a newspaper came back to me and I saw it almost as it is presented in the film. The song created the film.

- The director has dragged us into such an incredible entanglement that he must be pleased with himself. The poetic atmosphere at the beginning of the film changes and cruelty starts to pour into the film - said Stan Borys, asked for his impressions after the premiere screening. ‘To start with, I’m impressed by the size of the audience, I thought there would be just a group of friends present but the room was packed with people. I experienced some instances of shock during the screening as would often happen to me when I watched American films, but then I would often stop watching. Once, in America, where I used to live for a long time, I met a family whose surname was Jaskółka. In the film, regardless of the irrelevant details, Bartosz succeeded in achieving his aim.  I think that one day, something will happen in his life which will make his name ‘War-was’, known in Hollywood.

‘I’ve always been very fond of a tale, I find realism boring, which has been the prevailing trend in cinema for decades. It seems to me we have to look for new solutions. We can express much more by using metaphor. All school props-men worked on the film; we were all amused by the elements of Polish reality of the Communist days like, for example, milk bottles with which I have very good associations – said the director. – We would like the film to go to cinema distribution and we believe it will.

Ernest Wilczyński, the DOP: - We have been inspired by Andrzej Żuławski’s "The Third Part of the Night", especially the retrospections, and the way they were done technically. In the film, many things happen in parallell; we wanted these worlds in the film to interconnect. Many scenes are taken in one shot to achieve this smoothness.

Somebody from the audience asked how long the screenplay took to write, to which Bartosz Warwas, the director and screenwriter, replied: ‘At the end of January I experienced the revelation to do with  Stan Borys song "Jaskółką", and already by September we had started shooting. 

Łukasz Maciejewski, a film critic running the meeting, asked the director how it happened that a full-length diploma film could be produced – in the Lodz Film School history it only happened once in the case of Jerzy Skolimowski "Rysopis" in 1964. ‘To a great extent it was due to my carelessness. It is said that one page of the script equals one minute of the film. The script of "Jaskółka" was 40 page long, but already in the first days of the shoot it turned out it didn’t work that way. The film covers the script - 90 percent. The school was symphathetic and we were given some extra shooting days.

"Jaskółka", a diploma film directed by Bartosz Warwas, with photography by Ernest Wilczyński (artistic supervision: Filip Bajon, Zbigniew Wichłacz, Jerzy Zieliński), had its premiere at the Lodz Film School on 12 November in the television studio completely packed out. Stan Borys, who on 21st June, 1973, at the Polish Song Contest in Opole performed the famous song, "Jaskółka uwięziona", was a special guest at the premiere.