Project Description

Details:

Drama, 104 minutes, 2010

  • Screenplay – Ivo Kardel, Rafael Lewandowski
  • Directed by – Rafael Lewandowski
  • DOP – Piotr Rosołowski
  • Producer – Marcin Wierzchosławski, Jacek Kucharski
  • Cast – Borys Szyc, Marian Dziędziel, Magdalena Czerwińska, Wojciech Pszoniak
  • Co-financing – Polish Film Institute, Silesian Film Fund, Bielsko-Biała City Hall
  • Co-producers – Kuiv Production, Silesia Film Institution, Non-Stop Film Service, Vertigo, Trafik, Le Frensoy
  • Distribution – Kino Świat
  • Production – Metro Films

Summary

Since Paweł (Szyc) and his father Zygmunt (Dziędziel) started a joint business, his family is starting to look to the future more and more optimistically. Their dreams of a prosperous life are one day shattered by an article that harms Zygmunt’s good name. Overnight, Paweł’s associate’s turn away from him, and the marriage with Ewa (Czerwińska) is experiencing a crisis. Paweł will do anything to discover the truth and clear his father of the charges. Traces from the past lead to a mysterious man (Pszoniak), who for some time seems to have been secretly guiding the fate of Paweł and Zygmunt. In exchange for answers to questions that keep Paweł awake at night, he will make a desperate man a surprising offer…

Awards

  • 2011
    Gdynia (Polish Film Festival) – Award for a supporting male role Marian Dziedziel

  • 2011
    Montreal (World Film Festival) – male role award Borys Szyc

  • 2011
    Koszalin (Koszalin Festival of Film Debuts “Young and Film”) – Audience Award

  • 2011
    Los Angeles (Polish Film Festival) – “Hollywood Eagle Award”

  • 2011
    Katowice (Regiofun International Film Festival) – Main Award

  • 2011
    Arras (Arras Film Festival) – Audience Award

  • 2011
    Arras (Arras Film Festival) – Award of the French Association of Journalists of Film Critics

  • 2012
    Polityka’s Passport (cultural award of the Polityka weekly) – Award in the Film category for “an original and avoiding any schematic approach to dealing with the subject of Polish lustration and the evil that is passed down from generation to generation. For a courageous look from a distance on the legend of Solidarity and for excellent work with actors “
    Rafael Lewandowski

  • 2012
    Orzeł (Polish Film Award) – Nomination in the category: Best Supporting Male Role Wojciech Pszoniak

  • 2012
    Września (National Film Festival “Prowincjonalia”) – “Jańcio Wodnik” for the best male role
    Marian Dziedziel

  • 2012
    Września (“Prowincjonalia” National Film Festival) – “Jańcio Wodnik” for the greatest discovery of the festival
    Rafael Lewandowski

  • 2011
    Prize them. Zbyszek Cybulski
    Nomination
    Magdalena Czerwińska