The Miracle Fair

A colorcoded testimony of a bygone era In the documentary director Jerzy Hoffman presents the magical world of a folk marketplace As a result groups of imposters specialists in black magic homegrown inventors and charismatic healers are gathered among the stalls Wonder Fair is a colourful world full of figures of the Blessed Virgin Mary gingerbread hearts and ointments for all ailments The documentary awarded at the 1967 Tourfilm Competition in Warsaw gives up irony or bigcity paternalism presenting the characters with sympathy and warmth