RETRIEVAL
(Z ODZYSKU)



2006, 103 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Sławomir Fabicki
SCRIPT:
Sławomir Fabicki, Denijal Hasanovic, Marek Pruchniewski
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Bogumil Godfrejow
MUSIC:
various
ART DIRECTION:
Wojciech Żogała
EDITING:
Jarosław Kamiński
SOUND:
Piotr Knop, Michał Żarnecki
PRODUCER:
Piot Dzięcioł, Łukasz Dzięcioł
PRODUCTION:
Opus Film

CAST:
Antoni Pawlicki (Wojtek), Nataliya Vdovina (Katiya), Jacek Braciak (Gazda), Michał Filipak (baton)

Poland's Official Submission for the Academy Award '06 in the Foreign Language category.

Brought up without a father 19-year-old Wojtek lives in Silesia, a dull and grey region of Poland. It's hard to believe in any optimistic future when all that surrounds you are derelict coalmines and poverty-stricken streets. Here, even love comes harder. Wojtek is in love with an older woman, Katiya, a Ukrainian immigrant with a child. He is ready to do anything to ensure her legal right to stay in Poland. However, the world of illegal boxing fights, small time gangsters, and debt retrieval has him cornered. The more he fights for a better life for his girlfriend and her child, the lower he falls. How much will he have to sacrifice to escape the world of evil? Can he salvage the most important?

Sławomir Fabicki

Born in 1970 in Warsaw. Film director, screenwriter. Graduated from the Screenwriting School in 1995 and the Lodz National Film School in 2002. His school film, a short documentary Extension 55 (Wewnetrzny 55, 1998) won awards at film fests in Kalamata, Teheran and Oberhausen. A Man Thing (Meska sprawa, 2001), a short feature won numerous awards at prestigious festival including Cracow, Moscow, New York, Munich, Edinburgh, Clermont-Ferrand and Sidney. It also received an Oscar nomination and European Short Film Award nomination. He is a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography:

Sunday, November 5, 2006 at 7:00 pm. (Portage Theatre)

Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 6:00 pm. (Gateway Theatre)