Child’s Scenes of Provincial Life

Date
Hour
Place
31/07
20:45
THE SMALL CINEMA


Sceny dziecięce z życia prowincji
reż|dir Tomasz Zygadło |PL | 1985 | 135 min
scen|wr Andrzej Mencwel, Tomasz Zygadło zdj|ph Zdzisław Kaczmarek muz|mus Robert Schumann mon|ed Józef Bartczak ob|cast Dariusz Siatkowski, Ewa Wiśniewska, Beata Paluch, Henryk Bista, Bronisław Pawlik, Jerzy Trela, Leon Niemczyk dys|dis FINA

DESCRIPTION

Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After another argument with his father, he leaves the house. Comrade R., the mayor of the city, engages Julian as his son’s tutor. Krzysztof R. doesn’t want to study, to annoy his parents, but Julian wins his friendship and encourages independent thinking. Meanwhile, the Mayor is so preoccupied with his career that he doesn’t notice the growing intimacy between his wife and Julian.


DIRECTOR
Tomasz Zygadło (1947-2011) documental filmmaker, film and theatre director, screenwriter and actor. Initially, he was mainly a documentary film director. He made his cinema debut with the film “Rebus” (1977), but he gained real fame three years later for the film “Ćma” / ”The Moth” (1980), featuring an outstanding performance by Roman Wilhelmi (best actor award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and the festival in Moscow), as a radio journalist at a critical moment of his life. The black-and-white film was shot by the director’s brother – cinematographer Jacek Zygadło. In the 1990s, he directed mainly television spectacles, he also directed plays in several theatres, in Łódź, Krakow and Warsaw. He had cameos in several films (including Wajda’s and Kieślowski’s), he also starred in films he directed.

FILMOGRAPHY
1985 Sceny dziecięce z życia z prowincji|Child’s Scenes of Provincial Life
1982 Z kraju i ze świata|From the country and from the world
1980 Ćma|The Moth
1977 Rebus
1976 Mikrofon dla wszystkich|A Microphone for Everyone
1975 Miłość|Love
1972 Gospodarze|Hosts
1971 Szkoła podstawowa|Primary School
1968 Made in Poland|Made in Poland

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Projekt i realizacja: Tomasz Żewłakow