"The film is undeniably a tour de force in execution

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SCREEN DAILY
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Jan P. Matuszyński
  • Poland, France, Czech Republic 2021
  • 160 minutes
  • Polish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk, a young student beaten to death by the militia. The only witness of the fatal beating is one of Grzegorz’s colleagues, Jurek Popiel. Initially, the state apparatus downplays the case. However, when over 20 thousand People march through the streets of Warsaw behind Przemyk's coffin, the authorities decide to use any tools against the witness, to discredit Jurek and prevent him from testifying in court.

Leave No Traces comes to the Haifa Festival from its premiere at the Venice Festival. The powerful drama about the human cost of ideals and beliefs is based on a real-life story.

Filmography: The Last Family (2016).

 


  • Director Jan P. Matuszyński
  • Production Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham
  • Script Kaja Krawczyk-Wnuk
  • Editing Przemysław Chruścielewski
  • Festivals Venice
  • Actors Tomasz Ziętek, Mateusz Górski, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Więckiewicz
  • Source New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw