2002, 88 min., a comedy, on Beta

in Polish with English subtitles

 

Angel in Cracow

 

Awarded best director debut at PFF in Gdynia

            Also awards for best director, best actor and music at the 2002 FF in Września, Poland

 

Direction:                   Artur „Baron” Więcek

Screenplay:                Artur Więcek, Witold Bereś

Cinematography:       Piotr Trela

Music:                        Abel Korzeniowski

Scenography:             Zespół

Cast:                          Krzysztof Globisz jako Anioł Giordano, Ewa Kaim, Jerzy Trela

 

 

 

Angel Giordano visits souls in Purgatory far too often, is fascinated with rock’n’roll, and generally leads an outrageous lifestyle for an angel. Thus he is sent to Earth to perform at least one good deed every day. (He does not know yet that as an Angel he will be on earth only two days.) Because of some intrigue, he ends up near Cracow instead of in Holland. While waiting for his transfer to the “Land of Tulips,” he visits the city and is so deeply enchanted by its atmosphere that he asks his “heavenly superiors” to let him stay in Cracow. He meets Hanka, a single mother, who makes a living by selling sausages on the street. Giordano eagerly assists her, and with time, though still regarding him as an eccentric, Hanka begins to trust him.

 

Links:
http://www.festiwalfilmow.pl/hista/2002/fk1.htm

http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/film1.dll/opisfilmu?baza=1&nrf=10415&start=1

http://www.stopklatka.pl/film/film.asp?fi=8773

 

Artur „Baron” Więcek

B. 1967

Graduate of the Acting Department of the National Theater Academy (1991). Director, screenwriter, producer. For many years he has been working for Public Television, where he made the first series of “Conversations at the End of the Century.” Director of “A History of Philosophy in Highlanders’ Style” based on the writings of Rev. J. Tischner. The film was awarded by the National Council  for Radio and Television and it also received an award at the Prowincjonalia Festival in Wrzesnia. Co-screenwriter of the television films “This House is Haunted” and “This House is Still Haunted” and author of the animated film “Kleofas in the World of Capitalism,” which explains the basic concepts of economics. “Kleofas” was awarded by the Foundation of Entrepreneurship. He resides and works in the USA.

 

Artur „Baron” Więcek in “Gazeta Wyborcza in Cracow”:

I hope that I shall always make movies in Cracow. It’s not just about films, but also meeting and talking and not thinking about having to go to Warsaw. What is most important is with whom one works, most important is a good team of people who like each other. There is also something about the atmosphere of the city, such as places where you do things, like a passageway that you go by. Here we have a unique atmosphere without staging. We are in Cracow and we want to talk about it, discuss our places with the help of these and not other actors. We are not Generation 2000, seekers of new form. Everything that we have done so far has been based on three things -buddies, this city, and positive thinking.

 

Filmography:

 

2002    An Angel in Cracow – director, screenwriter

2000    A History of Philosophy in Highlanders’ Style (TV) - drector

 

Links:

http://www.stopklatka.pl/filmowcy/osoba.asp?oi=22748

 

Witold Bereś

 

Reporter, columnist for “Gazeta Wyborcza,” film and television producer, screenwriter. Author or co-author of several books. For the past year he has been in charge of the TVP program, “Good Books,” along with Kazimiera Szczuka and Tomasz Lubienski.  He and Artur Wiecek manage Beres & “Baron” Media Productions. He likes to keep saying that above all, he has had good luck with people.

 

Witold Beres in “Kino”:

We laugh about being compared to the Coen brothers: one of us has an idea and we write the screenplay together. Baron directs, because he’s great at it, while it bores me; I produce because he can’t stand to, while it gives me a rush of adrenaline. We always wanted to make a real film from beginning to end. Of course artistic, yet warm cinema. Not about gray and ravished Poland, but just  to make people laugh, so that tears well up in their eyes, about love, friendship, things more important than being hit by a baseball bat. To bring great people out of the shadows, our friends. Hand in hand to make something first-rate that will also sell well. No closed-circle atmosphere where four guys sit within four walls and do nothing. Let something happen. And of course, let there be at least one or two stars. On a minimal budget. And best of all. To sell it to theaters and to television.

 

Filmography:

 

2002    An Angel in Cracow – producer screenwriter