director Jan Jakub Kolski
screenplay Jan Jakub Kolski
director of photography Jan Jakub Kolski
music Krzysztof Ptak
with Krzysztof Majchrzak, Bartosz Opania, Grażyna Błęcka- Kolska, Franciszek Pieczka
awards (selection) Eagle, Polish Film Award for Best Film, for cinematography, music and editing, (Ewa Pakulska, prize awarded posthumously), 1999
Silver Knight, International Film Festival in Moscow, 1999
Grand Prix at Trieste Film Festival, 1999
Grand Prix at Geneva Cinéma Tout Ecran, 1999
Grand Prix, Golden Lions for Best Film, Best Actor for Krzysztof Majchrzak and Studio Cinemas Award at the 23rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia; Bronze Grape at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 1998
Grand Prix, Golden Jańcio (organizor’s award) and award for acting (award by the audience) at the Słupca Review of Films ‘Provinciality’, 1999
Tarnowska Film Award: Special Prize, Silver Statue of Leliwita, 1999
Warsaw Marmaid (Syrenka Warszawska), Film Critics Club SDP Award, 1998
Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka), ‘Film’ magazine Readers Award, 1999
[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]
Saint Roch: And has it got a name? Józef: Well,… a machine. Roch: Cinema, cine-machine, will be better. (…) Józef: I don’t know what to paint. Roch: Now, listen. Paint what gives you pleasure. A great pleasure. Józef: A great pleasure? Then now I know. Only this light… Roch: With the light… Look intently at the sky. When the rising comes… Józef: What rising? Roch: Look at the sky, you gawk. Just look at it.
TOMASZ JOPKIEWICZ, JAN JAKUB KOLSKI DISCOVERS THE MAGIC OF THE CINE-MACHINE, [IN:] HISTORY OF THE POLISH CINEMA, ED. BY T. LUBELSKI, K. J. ZARĘBSKI [JAN JAKUB KOLSKI ODKRYWA MAGIĘ KINOMASZYNY, [W:] HISTORIA KINA POLSKIEGO], WARSZAWA 2006
Kolski’s medium is a boy who arrives at the village from Łódź, the alter ego of the author. Owing to his sensitiveness we encounter a peculiar history of cinema, much different from the original version. What is subjective, imagined, becomes intertwined in an intangible knot with real events. (…) The magic of a cinema show appears here as an authentic experience, and not only for the makers of the film but also its audience (…). ‘History of Cinema in Popielawy’ is one of the most suggestive achievements in Kolski’s output because it successfully throws a bridge between the world of his private mythology and a broader, although no doubt not universal, wisdom.
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