Amok

  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Kasia Adamik
  • Poland 2017
  • 108 minutes
  • Polish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

After Polish businessman Mariusz Roszewski’s body is found on the banks of a river, the criminal investigation soon runs cold. Three years later, a book is published that appears to hold detailed and sinister clues to the unsolved murder. When troubled detective Jacek meets the calmly enigmatic author, he sets off a twisted journey of misdirection.

Kasia Adamik toys with the conventions of the crime thriller genre, delivering a tense, unsettling study of the malevolent banality of a sociopath.

Filmography: Jolanta (2013), The Offsiders (2008), Bark! (2002).

The film contains disturbing scenes.

 


  • Director Kasia Adamik
  • Production Beata Pisula
  • Cinematography Tomasz Naumiuk
  • Editing Michal Czarnecki
  • Festivals Edinburgh
  • Actors Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Łukasz Simlat, Zofia Wichłacz, Zbigniew Stryj
  • Source K&K Selekt, Warsaw