Alpha, 14.04.2014, 16:00
33 SCENY Z ŻYCIA / 33 SCENES FROM LIFE
An autobiographically inspired drama in which an artist called Julia seeks a way of coping with her mother’s illness with cancer. The disease is threatening to destroy the intellectual family in which the mother is a writer and her husband a filmmaker. The father drinks himself to the point of requiring hospitalization, and Julia is suffering from extreme mood fluctuation after futilely attempting to work through her mother’s suffering in her art. The living-out of these indeterminate emotions starkly contrasts with the tranquil opening scenes, which are bathed in warm colours, and hints at conflicts that were simmering below the surface even before calamity befell the family.
Poland, Germany 2008
97 min, 35mm, colour
DIRECTOR
Małgorzata Szumowska
SCREENPLAY
Małgorzata Szumowska
CAMERA
Michał Englert
EDITOR
Jacek Drosio
MUSIC
Paweł Mykietyn
PRODUCER
Raimond Goebel
CO-PRODUCER
Teresa Dworzecka
Małgorzata Szumowska
CAST
Julia Jentsch
Peter Gantzler
Maciej Stuhr
PRODUCTION
Pandora Film, Germany
CO-PRODUCTION
STI Studio Filmowe, Poland
Shot Szumowski, Poland
GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR
Real Fiction, Germany
SALES
Trust Nordisk, Denmark