2000, 77 min, animated movie with no age restriction

in Polish only, no English subtitles, sorry

The Upside-Down Mountain or a Movie with a Scary Title

Direction and artistic design:            Leszek Gałysz

Scenography:                                     Jerzy Niemczuk i Leszek Gałysz

Cinematography:                               Jan Ptasiński

Music:                                                Jan Pospieszalski

Animanion:                                         Krzysztof Giersz, Leszek Komorowski

Voices:                                                Wił: Daniel Olbrychski, Gig: Adam Ferency, Tatun: Krzysztof Kowalewski

Wił i Sonek

A feature film based on the TV serial, “A Movie With a Terrible Title.” Completed at Leszek Galysz’s J&P Graphic Film Studio, the thirteen-episode cartoon serial for children was transmitted on TV Poland’s Program 1 from Sept.4, 1997 to the end of the year. The serial won awards twice at the International Festival for Children and Youth in Poznan in 1996 and 1997.

In a small hut in a vast  forest lives a woodsman and his family: Tatun, Mamuna, their son Sonek, and the self-taught builder and inventor grandfather Lesawik, and near by,  at the bottom of the river, their friends, the water family: Topicha, her daughter Chlapa, and son Topek. One day out of a  tornado fall three gnomes – Plonki: Toko, Pinek, and Chobott and the imp Wil in the form of a dog. Wil brings news from the world about the evil knights, the Marbaty, who have turned the mountain upside-down and have gone to live inside it. And that is how the film begins, full of unusual mishaps, but, as in fairy tales, all ends well.

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The writers of the film were inspired by folk demonology. The screenwriter’s conceptions sprang from elements of folklore and ethnography. Likewise the music of Jan Pospieszalski with the highlander multi-instrumentalist Joszek Broda, Jr. (authentic shepherds’ instruments) goes back  to the roots of folk music. The vocals of the children’s voices , “Little Voo Voo” and “The Boys’ Choir of the Pospieszalski Family,” achieve an atmosphere of  bucolic myth.

Leszek Gałysz

Selected filmography:

2002    Tytus, Romek & Atomek among the thieves of dreams

2000    The Upside-Down Mountain or a Movie With a Scary Title

Links

www.syrena.com/Odwrocona/odwrocona.html

http://www.stopklatka.pl/film/film.asp?fi=2125