director Dorota Kędzierzawska
screenplay Dorota Kędzierzawska
director of photography Arthur Reinhart
music Włodzimierz Pawlik
with Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Patrycja Szewczyk (child), Kamil Bitau (child)
awards (selection) Eagle, Polish Film Award for Best Actress (Danuta Szaflarska), 2008
Jury Special Commendation and Audience Award at Trieste International Film Festival, 2008
Chris Holter Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, 2008
Special Prize at the New York Polish Film Festival, 2008
Best Actress (Danuta Szaflarska), Best Sound (Marcin Kasiński, Kacper Habisiak, Michał Pajdiak), Golden Claque for the film with the longest applause and Journalists Award (together with ‘Reserve’) at the 32nd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2007
Wojciech Jerzy Has Award at Directors Film Festival in Świdnica, 2008
Tarnowska Film Award: Grand Prix, Bronze Statue of Leliwita, 2008
JERZY PŁAŻEWSKI, TIME TO DIE [PORA UMIERAĆ], ‘KINO’, 2007, NO. 10
For Madame Danuta Saflarska – on the premises. Dear Madame Danuta, It’s been a long time since I was so moved by a Polish film as at the recent showing of ‘Time to Die’ – a film which is your benefit. Thank you, Madame, for all the emotions which lead us, the viewers, far beyond mundane horizons. As Rostworowski once wrote: A few times a bird sang beautifully, a few times a woman smiled at me beautifully. And life passed.
ŁUKASZ MACIEJEWSKI, THE SEE-SAW OF LIFE [HUŚTAWKA ŻYCIA], ‘DZIENNIK POLSKI’ 24 X 2007
Dorota Kędzierzawska has a style of her own. She is not like anyone else, she does not race against anyone. For years she has been making her small, low-key films – pictures about unloved children, single mothers, pimply outsiders – enjoyed by their faithful and numerous public across the world. ‘Time to Die’ is a film about the force of life. About the will to fight against life’s challenges, about wrestling with adversities of fate (…). But it is also a film about Home. Which must be written down with capital ‘H’. Home, that is the place where we are born, and where we sometime also die (…). It is a long time since I saw old age shown in the cinema in such a beautiful way – old age which is difficult but at the same time also full of humour.
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