Jurek

The documentary is about the climber Jerzy Kukuczka. Kukuczka was Polish. Those close to him called him Jurek. He climbed the summits above eight thousand metres. He completed all fourteen of them. He was the second man to do so. Everest and Lhotse stand out in the film. His climbs were spread over many years. He became a known name in the climbing world. He died on Lhotse in 1989. The documentary uses archive footage. His family and his friends speak. Reinhold Messner talks as well. The film does not put his death at its centre. Jerzy Kukuczka and Reinhold Messner appear in the seventy three minute documentary. It is a Polish production Paweł Wysoczański finished in 2014.