2001, 100 min, PG15

in Polish with English subtitles

Station                         

 

Direction:                   Piotr Wereśniak

Scenography:             Piotr Wereśniak

Cinematography:       Marian Prokop

Music:                        Krzesimir Dębski

Scenography:             Anna Wunderlich

 

Cast:                           Bogusław Linda, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Katarzyna Figura, Olaf Lubaszenko, Sławomir Orzechowski

 

 

 

 

 

Somewhere in an out-of-the-way place in the countryside near a border crossing a sociology student, Banan (a first-rate performance by Bartosz Obuchowicz), works at a gas station. One day the daily monotony is interrupted by the arrival of a luxury Audi with a badly wounded gangster. Banan intends to call for help, but the station owner has another plan – he wants to wait until the gangster has bled to death, and then they will be able to rake in the money. Nearby small town life goes on:  the gynecologist, Wolanski, has problems with his beautiful wife who is having an affair with a policeman. To make matters worse his son runs away from home. Subsequent threads of the plot are integrated.

Director Piotr Weresniak calls his film „a tragicomedy resembling a crime story,” and critics delight in comparing it to Joel Coen’s „Fargo.” Somehow interspersing several themes in the sensational plot, the winter scenery, and the strong permeation of humor in the picture justify such an association.  As a matter of fact „The Station” deals with a new formula for the most part thanks to the skillful blend of opposing film and esthetic conventions.

 

 

Piotr Wereśniak

B. 1969

 

Graduate of the Silesian University in Katowice (Department of Radio and Television, 1992). Director and screenwriter. Author of dozens of screenplays for film, radio, and press commercials. Winner of the Hartley-Merrill award for the screenplay of “The Station” (1999), which was also nominated for the Polish Film Award, the Eagle. At the Polish Feature Film Festival in 2001 “The Station” was recognized as the best film comedy by “Video Studio Gdansk.” Marian Prokop won an award for cinematography and Bartosz Obuchowicz won for the best supporting actor.

 

Filmography:

 

1997  Killer - writer

1997  Zlotopolscy - writer

1999  For Good and Bad – writer, director

1999  Pan Tadeusz - writer

2000  M jak milosc - director

2000  Lovers – writer, director

2001  The Station – writer, director

2002 Nie ma bata na wariata - director

 

Links

http://film.onet.pl/6483,film.

http://www.monolith.pl/stacja/index.