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.
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