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P R O D U C E R S NOWHERE
Jacek Drosio Malgorzata Szumowska
AND MICHAl ENGLERTC O - P R O D U C E R S
D35 S.A. Marcin KryjomKINO SWIAT Marcin Piasecki
MAZOWIECKI FUNDUSZ FILMOWY Aleksandra KielanE X E C U T I V E P R O D U C E R
LAMBROS ZIOTASA P O L I S H F I L M I N S T I T U T E C O - F I N A N C E D P R O D U C T I O N
GENERAL DIRECTOR Agnieszka Odorowicz
Poland, nowadays. The intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, his anorexic daughter and her therapist who claims she can communicate with the dead loved ones.Three radical ly dif ferent approaches to the body and soul.
synopsis
What was the initial trigger for BODY?I wanted to make a film about anorexics. I thought about it for a long time but then gave up this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach the audience. However, the plot about the plot about Olga's character and the idea that a
body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind. A body – physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.
BODY features various approaches to our relationship with our body and our sensory experience of the world. Can you explain them? Olga hates her body, which she sees as so-mething useless. She wants to be free, to be void of its corporeality. She is a victim of this contemporary chase for an ideal body which in the end doesn't exist at all.
Her father doesn't know how to help her. He sees dead bodies in his everyday life which in his pragmatic and lonely world become just
objects. He doesn't believe in anything.
Anna, who believes in the disembodiment - or in other words in ghosts – attempts to convince him to believe. Each character is somehow trapped in his or her own body. He is old and embittered while Anna has in a way lost her sexuality.
interview WITH THE DIRECTORHow has the Polish religious and political culture influenced the way you’ve treated this subject, especially for the character of the therapist? The action takes place in present day Poland, although it looks a bit like it took place 20 years ago. And this is something I wanted to show. Just around the corner of new hip shops that sell organic food are people living the way they did back in the 90s. Poland of ordinary people is less «photogenic» and this is the Poland of these people that I’m showing, people who earn less than the national average salary wor-king state jobs and are miles away from the hipster cafes in their neighbourhood. There are thousands of people like these. Today, 25 years after the collapse of communism, in a country where everything is constantly chan-
ging from one day to another, where Church no longer has such a strong impact on po-litics and state, people of a certain age feel simply lost.
Anna searches for a meaning in her job. She treats the sick girls in a very emotional way and wants to implement new therapeutic me-thods, but Polish hospitals are not open nor ready for that. She is seen as a lunatic. Anna finds her faith in spiritualism, as Catholicism is for her an obsolete and untrue form.
Why did you cast Maja Ostaszewska for the role of the therapist?Maja is an outstanding theatre actress. Her portfolio includes many significant roles in cinema, but most importantly she frequently plays withKrzysztof Warlikowski, a very well-known Polish theatre director. Polish cinema doesn’t offer many role opportunities for wo-men older than 40 years old as characters
tend to be either bland or destined for women in their 20s. I dreamt about using Maja’s talent and creating a character that would allow her to use her experience. Together with Michal Englert we created this character of the thera-pist for her, being totally aware of the comedy skills that Maja has demonstrated in theatre.
There is a sense of comedy and humor in this film despite the rather tragic reality and the fragility of the characters, how did you manage to lighten the tone?Perhaps Michal, the co-writer of the script, and I are at this time in our lives when a too serious and snobby tone is just getting tiring to us. Despite its brutality, life tends to be quite funny even in the most violent moments. And maybe it is the case because without a good
laugh it would be impossible to face all the things that happen to us. Serious subjects like faith for exemple. Such subjects would sound silly if they weren’t overcome with hu-mour, even if it’s black humour.
The human body is recurring theme in your films, what is it about it that fascinates you?I'm fascinated by the body as a machine, which let our lifes go. For me, to live – means also to create. Only an efficient body can allow us to do a great activities, to create, to move, to sleep and function. The body can impose
terrible limits, it can become an obsession. To all intents and purposes everything might be related to the body. Thus, we search for something that is aside from it, we miss this thing that is outside of it.
1997 - Day in the Life of Tomek Karat1999 - Seven Lessons of Love2000 - A Wedding in the House of Loneliness2001 - Documentary...2005 - My Father, Maciek2006 - Nothing To Be Scared Of
Documentary
2000 - Happy Man2004 - Stranger2008 - 33 Scenes From Life2011 - Elles2013 - In the Name of...2015 - Body
Feature film
Małgorzata Szumowska belongs to
the most prominent Polish filmmakers
and covers a broad spectrum working
as screenwriter and producer as well
as documentary and feature film director.
She has been honoured with several
international awards, including the
Teddy Award for In The Name Of at the
Berlin Film Festival and the Silver Leopard
Award at the Locarno Film festival
for 33 Scenes From Life. Malgorzata
Szumowska was twice nominated for
the European Film Awards for Happy Man and Stranger. She is a winner of many
prestigious prizes in Poland.
Her movie Elles, featuring Juliette Binoche
and Anaïs Demoustier, was sold
to over 40 countries. In 2015 comes
out her new movie Body.
short ilmf1995 - Scene 10 1996 - Before I Disappear1997 - Silence short documentary2000 - Ascension2004 - Visions Of Europe (part: Crossroad)2005 - Solidarity, Solidarity.... (part: Father)
DIRECTOR’S BIOMałgorzata Szumowska
ACTORs' BIOMaja Ostaszewska – a notable Polish movie and theater actress.
She cooperated with the most important Polish theater directors,
works permanently for well known in Poland and in the world
Nowy Teatr (New Theater) directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski.
She played lead role in Katyn directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Maja Ostaszewska performed for many film directors in such
productions as: In The Name Of by Małgorzata Szumowska, The Pianist directed by Roman Polański. She’s a laureate of many film awards.
Maja Ostaszewska has been an activist and a defender of animals' rights
for a couple of years now.
Janusz Gajos – recognised as one of the most distinguished actors in Polish theater and film industry. He has played
numerous roles in outstanding movies, including: Man of Iron
(dir. Andrzej Wajda), Three Colors: White (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski), Interrogation (dir. Ryszard Bugajski), Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (dir. Wojciech Marczewski). Well known for his role in the
most popular Polish TV series of the ‘60s - Four tank-men and a dog.
He is a laureate of many awards for his professional achievements.
In 2011 he was honoured by the President of Poland Bronisław
Komorowski. He has been working for
National Theater in Warsaw since 2003.
NOWHERE was established in May 2013 and made its debut with Body, whose world premiere is going to take place during the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The founders of NOWHERE are experienced film makers: a film director Małgorzata Szumowska, DOP Michał Englert , a film editor Jacek Drosio and an actor Mateusz Kościukiewicz. Sharing their passion to cinema, NOWHERE was found to discover and support new, original and independent filmmakers, from all over the world.
Michał Englert (cinematographer, writer and producer)He is a member of the European Film Academy. He’s made several features, shorts, documentaries, commercials, music videos, both in the Polish and international industry. The movies he collaborated on were presented and awarded in such a prestigious international film festivals as Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, Locarno, and many more. He also cooperated with such film directors as Małgorzata Szumowska, Ari Folman, Jacek Borcuch. His work was acknowledged by international press like Variety, Screen International, TimeOut, The Hollywood Reporter, etc. He won Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, the Gdynia Film Festival and at the FF Mexico.
PRODUCER’S PROFILE
castTHE PROSECUTOR
ANNA THE THERAPISTOLGA
THE PROSECUTOR’S GIRLFRIENDTHE DOCTOR
THE PROSECUTOR’S ASSISTANTTHE WOMAN WHO LOST HER SON
THE NURSETHE GRAVEDIGGER
THE NEIGHBOR
Janusz GajosMaja Ostaszewska Justyna Suwała Ewa Dałkowska Adam WoronowiczTomasz ZiętekMałgorzata Hajewska-KrzysztofikEwa KolasińskaRoman GancarczykWładysław Kowalski
crewDIRECTOR
SCREENPLAY
CINEMATOGRAPHEREDITOR
SOUND DESIGNERS
SOUND PRODUCTION DESIGNER PRODUCTION MANAGER
COSTUME DESIGNERS
MAKE-UP ARTIST1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
CASTING DIRECTORPRODUCERS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CO-PRODUCERS
Małgorzata SzumowskaMałgorzata SzumowskaMichał EnglertMichał Englert Jacek DrosioKacper HabisiakMarcin Kasiński Marcin JachyraElwira Pluta Marek Bączyk Katarzyna LewińskaJulia Jarża-BrataniecAgnieszka Hodowana Hubert KoprowiczMajka SkryśkiewiczJacek Drosio Małgorzata Szumowska Michał Englert Lambros Ziotas D35 (Marcin Kryjom)Kino Świat (Marcin Piasecki)Mazowiecki Fundusz Filmowy (Anna Kielan)
