THE OFFSIDERS
(BOISKO BEZDOMNYCH)



2008, 126 min., Poland
Polish with English subtitles

DIRECTION:
Kasia Adamik
SCRIPT:
Przemyslaw Nowakowski
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Jacek Petrycki
ART DIRECTION:
Katarzyna Sobanska
MUSIC:
Antoni Lazarkiewicz
EDITING:
Michal Czarnecki
SOUND:
Jacek Hamela, Leszek Freund
PRODUCED BY:
Tor Film Studio
PRODUCER:
Krzysztof Zanussi

CAST:
Marcin Dobrocinski (Jacek Mroz), Eryk Lubos (Roman Gawron), Dmitrij Piersin (Mitro), Jacek Poniedzialek ("Father" Jarek), Joanna Grudzinska, Rafal Fudalej (Alek), Dariusz Toczek (Mundek), Krzysztof Kiersznowski (Staszek), Zbignew Zamachowski (sports journalist)

Jacek is a former player of National Polish soccer team and a current homeless inhabitant of the Cental Station. Against all odds he decides to establish a football team with his fellow misfits.

KASIA ADAMIK
Born in 1972. Director and storyboard artist. Daughter of directors Agnieszka Holland and Laco Adamik. She studied at the Art High School in Paris, and at the Institute St Luc in Brussels. Her first feature film "Bark!" was nominated for the Best Feature Film at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and traveled to many international film festivals. Worked as the 2nd crew director in "Copying Beethoven" and "Julie Walking Home", both by Agnieszka Holland.

FILMOGRAPHY AS A DIRECTOR

2008 The Offsiders (Boisko bezdomnych), Silver Screen Audience Award in Gdynia '08;
2007 The Team, TV mini-series, co-director (Ekipa, mini-series tv, co-director);
2005 Pitbull, TV mini-series, co-director (Pitbull, mini-series tv, co-director);
2002 Bark!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 9pm (GALLERY THEATRE)