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DOSKONALE POPOLUDNIE / THE PERFECT AFTERNOON

 

DOSKONALE POPOLUDNIE / THE PERFECT AFTERNOON

DOSKONALE POPOLUDNIE / THE PERFECT AFTERNOON
DIRECTOR: PRZEMYSLAW WOJCIESZEK
POLAND 2005
90 MIN / 35MM, COLOR, OV w. engl. ST

Caligari: 06.04. / 8.00 pm
Caligari: 07.04. / 4.00 pm

DIRECTOR:
Przemyslaw Wojcieszek

SCREENPLAY:
Przemyslaw Wojcieszek

CAMERA:
Jolanta Dylewska

ART DIRECTOR:
Andrzej Plocki

EDITOR:
Andrzej Bressa

MUSIC:
Radoslaw Lukasiewicz
Zespol Pustki

PRODUCER:
Pawel Rakowski

CAST:
Michal Czarnecki
Jerzy Stuhr
Magdalena Poplawska
Malgorzata Dobrowolska
Dorota Kaminska

PRODUCTION:
Skorpion Art, Warschau
Tel.: 0048 - 22 / 851 11 04
e-mail: skorpion@softmark.com.pl

Telewizja Polska S.A., Warschau
Tel.: 0048 - 22 / 547 63 64
Fax: 0048 - 22 / 547 42 25
e-mail: sales@waw.tvp.pl

PROVIDED BY:
Polish Film Institute, Warschau
Tel.: 0048 - 22 / 421 03 47
e-mail: info@pisf.pl

Mikolai and Anna want to marry. Money is scarce, but optimism abounds. Together with his friend Krzysiek, Mikolai is trying his hand as a publisher, but his first book has sold only 500 copies. Another friend Jacek wants to make a film about veterans of the anti-Communist opposition in Poland, and asks Mikolai to help. Initially unwilling, he agrees when Jacek offers him a deal: Even if the project doesn’t come to anything, the bridal couple will get a free video of their wedding. Przemyslaw Wojcieszek draws a vivid picture of contemporary Poland by bringing into collision different generations and their conflicting notions of how to live, their differing perspectives on past and future. The occasional clash is inevitable, as when Mikolai’s friends come to blows – outside a McDonald’s – during an argument about whether people who leave the country to pursue the old Polish dream of a better life abroad are escapist. Those who choose to stay are at any rate obliged to contend with the still powerful forces of tradition. Anna’s father, a country butcher, insists they marry in a church. But since Mikolai’s parents have long been separated, the young couple knows how fragile supposedly eternal bonds can be. His father, a tram conductor in Breslau who was a member of Solidarnosc, views the wedding as the chance to attempt a reconciliation with his ex-wife; to prepare the ground he even visits her in Warsaw, a city he loathes. The tone of the film is fundamentally cheerful, with the very agile camerawork and the use of black-and-white for the video shoots conveying the vibrancy of a new departure – even if life is not always easy.

 
           
  PRZEMYSLAW WOJCIESZEK  

PRZEMYSLAW WOJCIESZEK
Born on 18.3.1974 in Jelcz-Miloszyce, Poland.
Przemyslaw Wojcieszek studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and journalism at the University of Wroclaw. His feature film GLOSNIEJ OD BOMB was presented in 2002 in competition of IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg. In 2002, he was the initiator of Slamdance Poland. In 2004, he made his theater debut with MADE IN POLAND. His third feature film DOSKONALE POPOLUDNIE was awarded twice at Gdynia and presented at the Forum of Berlinale 2006.

FILMOGRAPHY:
1999 Zabij ich wszystkich / Kill Them All
2001 Glosniej od bomb / Louder Than Bombs
2004 W dol kolorowym wzgorzem / Down Colourful Hill
2005 Doskonale popoludnie / Der perfekte Nachmittag / The Perfect Afternoon

   
         
         
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