director Lech Majewski
screenplay Lech Majewski, Maciej Melecki
director of photography Adam Sikora
music ARRANGED BY Lech Majewski
with Krzysztof Siwczyk, Dominika Ostałowska, Andrzej Mastalerz, Elżbieta Okupska
awards
European Film Prize nomination for Krzysztof Siwczyk (Best European Actor), 2000
Eagle, Polish Film Award nominations for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, art direction and best actress (Dominika Ostałowska), 2000
Grand Prix at European Film Festival in Corto, 2000
Golden Key for Lech Majewski and Adam Sikora at the International Film Festival in Trenciańskie Teplice, 2000
Best Director at the 24th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1999
Bronze Grape at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 1999
award for Krzysztof Siwczyk, Statutory Award and Journalists Award for cinematography at the National Film Art Festival ‘Provinciality’ in Września, 2000
Tarnowska Film Award, Grand Prix, Bronze Statue of Leliwita, 2000
RAFAŁ WOJACZEK, FEMININITY III [KOBIECOŚĆ III]
I don’t know if you noticed that the word ‘kobieta’ [woman]
Naturally rhymes with the word ‘poeta’ [poet]
I don’t know if you pondered this splendid quality
I don’t know if it struck
You with such clarity
That’s all I know (in simple syllogisms
I declare
that wisdom of mine): an expert on soiled underwear…
ANDRZEJ KOŁODYŃSKI, SUCH A PORTRAIT… [TAKI PORTRET…], ‘KINO’, 1999, NO. 11
A poet’s rebellion, even if it is directed against concrete things, contains a metaphysical core. (…) And this is what Majewski emphasizes in the film, reducing the realities of Wojaczek’s times to a surrealistic metaphor. The picture of the world in his black-and-white frames is stylized to the maximum (…). Another asset is an air of vagueness which continues as if against… the character of narration. Majewski succeeded in throwing a bridge between the day present and the space of People’s Poland, which makes it possible that the figure of the rebel can be accepted by the viewer of today -young and not at all free from rebellious feelings.
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