"Masterful, Provocative High-Wire Act of Genre and Arthouse"

Screen Anarchy
  • Archive - Festival 38
  • Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Poland 2021
  • 133 minutes
  • Polish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Corrupt businessman Ryszard Wilk barely finds time to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter, the heavily pregnant Kasia, amidst all his shady dealings and tangled affairs. The bride herself cannot wait to leave Poland and her father for a new life while elderly patriarch Antoni Wilk, quietly observing the mayhem, is transported by a surprise visit to another turbulent wedding during WWII and a first, unexpected love.

Wojtek Smarzowski, one of Poland’s leading filmmakers, presents a rich, provocative and brutally incisive portrait of Polish society and history. The film, winner of two major awards at the Tallinn Black Nights Festival, builds on Smarzowski's feature debut of the same name, gradually turns the wedding into a funeral that mourns the values of contemporary Poland and the shadows of its shameful past.

Filmography: Hatred (2016), The Mighty Angel (2014), Rosa (2011), The Dark House (2009), The Wedding (2004).

 

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  • Director Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Production Janusz Bogaczyk, Wojciech Gostomczyk, Janusz Hetman
  • Script Wojciech Smarzowski
  • Cinematography Piotr Sobociński Jr
  • Editing Krzysztof Komander
  • Music Mikołaj Trzaska
  • Festivals Tallinn Black Nights (Best Director, Best Screenplay), Tromso
  • Actors Agata Kulesza, Robert Więckiewicz, Michalina Łabacz, Mateusz Więcławek, Arkadiusz Jakubik
  • Source Postnovation | DiFactory