Edi

^director Piotr Trzaskalski
^screenplay Wojciech Lepianka, Piotr Trzaskalski
^{director of photography} Krzysztof Ptak
^music Wojciech Lemański
^with Henryk Gołębiewski, Jacek Braciak, Jacek Lenartowicz, Grzegorz Stelmaszewski, Aleksandra Kisio, Dominik Bąk, Małgorzata Fleder-Siedler, Tomasz Jarosz
^awards
 Eagle, the Polish Film Award, for Jacek Braciak for Actor in Supporting Role and Audience Award, 2003
 FIPRESCI Prize, award of Ecumenical Jury for Best Film presented at the Young Cinema Forum and award of the International Film Clubs Federation at the International Film Festival in Berlin, 2003
 Silver Prometheus, 2nd Prize at the International Film Festival in Tbilisi, 2003
 Audience Award at the International Film Festival in Split, 2003
 Grand Prix in the Film Contest of Central European and East European Countries in Cleveland, 2003
 Journalists Award at the International Film Festival in Alba, 2003
 award for Henryk Gołębiewski at the International Film Festival in Sochi, 2003
 award for cinematography at the International Film Festival in Newport Beach, 2003
 Golden Frog for Cinematography at Camerimage, the International Film Festival Of the Art of Cinematography in Łódź, 2002
 Jury Special Prize, awards for Cinematography, Art Direction (Wojciech Żogała), award for Jacek Braciak for Actor in Supporting Role and Journalists Award at the 28thth Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2007
 Grand Prix at Warsaw International Film Festival, 2002
 Grand Prix, Golden Grape at Lubuskie Summer Festival in Łagów, 2003
 Main Prize, ‘Jańcio Wodnik’ at the National Film Art Festival ‘Provincionality’ in Września, 2003
 Totus, an award of the Foundation of the ‘Act of New Millenium’ of the Polish Episcopate, 2003
 Tarnów Film Award: Youth Jury Award and Mascaron Audience Award, 2007
 Golden Film (Złota Taśma), award of the Polish Film Association, 2003
 Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka), ‘Film’ magazine Editorial Staff Award for Henryk Gołębiewski for the actor who ‘Made the Film Happen’, 2003

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

Jureczek: Edi… Thanks. Edi: For what? Jureczek: For not selling the TV set. You see now how beautiful life can be. If I were rich, I’d have three TV sets. One in the bedroom, second in the dining-room, third in the kitchen. Then I’d feel as if I had a real life. Edi: Don’t you feel it now? Jureczek: And what sort of life do I have now? Edi: Your own.

ANITA PIOTROWSKA, A PARABLE FROM THE CITY OF ŁÓDŹ [PRZYPOWIEŚĆ Z MIASTA ŁODZI], ‘KINO’, 2000, NO. 11

Piotr Trzaskalski has set his film in a space which is eagerly penetrated these days: a scrap-heap, refuse containers, social outcasts from normal life (…) Yet, ‘Edi’ is a very oldfashioned film about very unselfish instincts of the human heart (…). In his film, Trzaskalski rejects conventions and turns to people as such. His story is told in a simple and contained language, with a clever balance between realism and magic. Realistically concrete pictures of ‘the city of Łódź’ are intertwined with adroit use of the off-frame space, thus enhancing the film with an air of mystery without lessening its truthfulness.