The Collector

^director Feliks Falk
^screenplay Grzegorz Łoszewski
^{director of photography} Bartosz Prokopowicz
^music Bartłomiej Gliniak
^with Andrzej Chyra, Małgorzata Kożuchowska, Kinga Preis, Grzegorz Wojdon, Jan Frycz, Sławomir Orzechowski, Marian Dziędziel, Marian Opania
^{awards (selection)}   Eagle, Polish Film Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction (Anna Wunderlich), Best Actress (Kinga Preis), Best Actor (Andrzej Chyra) and Audience Award, 2006
 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Berlin International Film Festival, 2006
 award for screenplay and for acting (Andrzej Chyra) at Golden Knight International Film Festival in Moscow, 2006
 Golden Award at World Fest Houston Independent Film Festival, 2007
 award for screenplay at Teheran International Film Festival, 2007
 Grand Prix, Golden Lions for Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (Andrzej Chyra), Best Supporting Actress (Kinga Preis) at the 30th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2005
 Main Prize, ‘Jańcio Wodnik’ and rize for acting for Andrzej Chyra at the National Film Art Festival ‘Provincionality’ in Września, 2006
 Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka), ’Film’ magazine Readers Award for Best Polish Film and prize for Andrzej Chyra, 2006
 Zbyszek Cybulski Award for Kinga Preis, 2006

FELIKS FALK, I HAVE NOT MADE ‘TOP DOG 3’; TALK WITH KONRAD J. ZARĘBSKI [NIE NAKRĘCIŁEM ‘WODZIREJA 3’; ROZMOWA Z KONRADEM J. ZARĘBSKIM,], ‘KINO’ 2005. NO. 10

One of the reasons why I reached for ‘The Collector’ is the fact that the ups and downs of the protagonist depict a certain social situation which arouses my concern (…). Wherever we look around we see how people wronged as a result of calls for moral purity, shouting slogans and the accompanying propaganda. I wanted ‘The Collector’ to reflect the climate and atmosphere of the moment we are living in.

KONRAD J. ZARĘBSKI, THE COLLECTOR [KOMORNIK], ‘KINO’, 2005, NO. 10

The dynamic, and occasionally directly rapacious film from Feliks Falk resembles in many ways the works of the cinema of moral anxiety – a trend the director had co-authored. More than this, Ludwik Bohme reminds us of the hero of ‘Top Dog’ not only because he has the same first name. Like the latter, Bohme is a representative of a social group who, aiming at a quick rise up the social ladder, adopted a certain lifestyle. The two protagonists live some 30 years apart, but have methods of career-making changed so much in the period?