THE RELIABLE SYSTEM
(NIEZAWODNY SYSTEM)



2008, 78 min., Poland
Polish with English subtitles

DIRECTION:
Izabela Szylko
SCRIPT:
Izabela Szylko
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Wojciech Staron
ART DIRECTION:
Marian Zawalinski
MUSIC:
Grzegorz Turnau
EDITING:
Ewa Smal
SOUND:
Andrzej Zabicki
PRODUCED BY:
Documentary & Feature Film Studio (WFDiF)
PRODUCER:
Wlodzimierz Niderhaus

CAST:
Alina Janowska (Maria), Wojciech Siemion (Leon), Szymon Bobrowski (Julian), Katarzyna Cynke (young Maria), Piotr Fronczewski (Maria's father), Wladyslaw Kowalski (antique dealer), Ludwika Najbauer (Lusia), Ewa Kwiatkowska (Lusia's mother)

Maria is more than eighty years old. She comes from an aristocratic family that declined after the war. She lives humbly off a retirement pension, alone in her studio flat. Maria has a secret admirer whom she teaches French. She seems like an ordinary old lady. Yet nobody knows that Maria regularly plays roulette. In her life there is a secret related to gambling... and diamond necklace.

IZABELA SZYLKO
Graduated form Journalism Institute at the Warsaw University. Awarded scholarship at Media Production Services (1989-90) in London, speciality: directing and television production. During her studies she collaborated with "Film" and "The Warsaw Voice" weekly magazines and "Kino" monthly. She worked for Polish Television as a reporter of "Reporters' Express" and "Reporters of Channel 2 Present" (1991-2001). Author of documentary programs "Roots and Parents" for TVP Channel 3. Author of screenplays for three episodes od "Great Winnings", a TVP series. Since 2001 - an independent producer. She executed a number of documentaries commissioned by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Author of a suspense novel "Madonna with the Hyacinth."

FEATURE FILMOGRAPHY

2008 The Reliable System (Niezawodny system), feature film debut.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 7pm (PICKWICK THEATRE)
Sunday, November 16th, 2008 at 1pm (FACETS CINEMATHEQUE)