According to acclaimed film critics (Barbara Hollender, Bożena Janicka, Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Tadeusz Lubelski, Rev. Andrzej Luter, Zdzisław Pietrasik, Anita Piotrowska and Tadeusz Sobolewski), the highest marks go to Waldemar Krzystek’s Legnica-set film Waldemar Krzystek “Photographer”. On a scale of 1 to 5, it received six fives and two fours, with an average rating of 4.7. Wojciech Smarzowski’s film Wojciech Smarzowski “Under the Mighty Angel” came second (4.5), while “Gods” by Łukasz Palkowski came third (4.4).
In this context, it is worth quoting Tadeusz Sobolewski’s highly interesting statement (“Kino”, No. 10, 2014):
A film that is at once personal and historical, genre-based and metaphorical. Another return by the director to Legnica, the little Moscow of his childhood, where he discovered that the nation that conquered space is consumed by an inferiority complex and lives with a sense of humiliation. Without the melodrama of the previous film, in the conventions of a crime film, thriller and horror. Krzystek achieved something that is difficult even for Russians themselves. Through the story of an abused child who developed a split personality and never spoke in his own voice, he touched on the imperial complex and the inability to tell the truth about oneself. The one who spreads fear turns out to be a weak, helpless child. Krzystek presented this without lapsing into Polish megalomania and without a trace of Russophobia.
During the recent 30th MIPCOM international television market in Cannes, Telewizja Polska presented its latest productions. The offering for nearly 5,000 buyers from more than 100 countries around the world included, among others, the Polish premiere films “Photographer” and “Special Forces”.
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