director Dariusz Gajewski
screenplay Dariusz Gajewski, Mateusz Bednarkiewicz
director of photography Wojciech Szepel
music The Kormorany
with Agnieszka Grochowska, Łukasz Garlicki, Dominika Ostałowska, Lech Mackiewicz, Sławomir Orzechowski, Andrzej Szenajch
awards (selection) Eagle, Polish Film Award for Best Supporting Actress (Dominika Ostałowska), 2004
Platinum Award at World Fest, Houston International Film Festival, 2005
Jury Special Prize at the Baltic International Film Festival in Svetlogorsk, 2005
Grand prix, Golden Lions for Best Film, prizes for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing (Jarosław Barzan), Best Supporting Actress (Dominika Ostałowska) and Polish Filmmakers Association Prize for a creative presentation of reality at the 28th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2003
Andrzej Munk Award, 2004
JULIAN TUWIM, IN WARSAW [W WARSZAWIE], 1920
I’ll centuplicate my eyes, fuddle up the glances,
Let them off like hounds into a viper nest of lines
(…) And the fourth one, and the fifth
Will never meet and get entrapped by a thought
(…) And down the seventh – bright in the sun and erect as a reed –
Coming to meet me is a Girl, the Girl:
Swinging her hips with the talk of a danseuse,
So that houses go swinging on both sides of the street!
TADEUSZ SOBOLEWSKI, LIKABLE WARSAW [WARSZAWA DA SIĘ LUBIĆ], ‘GAZETA WYBORCZA’, 15-16 XI 2003
Everything that is important in this film takes place in micro situations (…). What is beautiful in Gajewski’s film is his attempt to build a bridge between great issues of the past and seemingly small problems faced by young people of today for whom the key-word is ‘disorientation’. Next to former places of execution, things are happening which are not at all small but are just seen in a different scale. Small is important. Both here and there what is at stake is someone’s life, freedom, hope, love.
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