Artists in LA discover the work of forgotten Polish sculptor Stanislav Szukalski, a mad genius whose true story unfolds chapter by astounding chapter.
Direction
Dobrowolski lets Szukalski's contradictions breathe without easy answers.
Production
Incredible archive footage of destroyed sculptures you'll never see again.
Writing
Narrative structure that keeps dropping bombshells like fiction.
Director
Irek Dobrowolski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
George DiCaprio—Leo's dad—spent decades championing Szukalski and helped produce this doc. The DiCaprio connection is how this got Netflix money.
Szukalski's 'BUTT' self-portrait sculpture and his theory of 'Protong'—a 'original human language' he claimed to decode—reveal an artist who genuinely believed he'd cracked cosmic secrets.
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