Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Who never lived


WHO NEVER LIVED

Kto nigdy nie zyl, 2006, 104 min.

Director


ANDRZEJ SEWERYN

Screenplay


MACIEJ STRZEMBOSZ

Cinematography


PIOTR WOJTOWICZ

Music


JAN A. P. KACZMAREK

Art Director


JANUSZ SOSNOWSKI

Producer


MIROSLAW SLOWINSKI


CAST

Jan


MICHAL ZEBROWSKI

Marta


JOANNA SYDOR

Pawel


ROBERT JANOWSKI

Jan’s Mother


TERESA MARCZEWSKA

The Confessor


STEFAN BURCZYK

Bishop


ANDRZEJ ZARNECKI

Krzysztof


CEZATY IBER

Mateusz


MATEUSZ BANASIUK

Kasia


NATALIA RYBICKA

The Prior


PIOTR SZCZEPANIK


AWARDS

2007 - Janusz Sosnowski Eagle (Polish Film Award) - nominee in best art direction

STORY

Jan, a young, charismatic priest takes care of youth with problems as part of his daily pastoral duties. However, the methods he uses and his strong ties with the drug addicts' milieu is something his superiors hardly find palatable. Consequently, he is told to go to Rome to study, which he regards as an attempt at separating him from his faithful young people badly need of help. He wants to struggle to keep his position... Life, however, dramatically frustrates his plans. In hospital, Jan learns that he is HIV positive. The young priest has to go through a Job-like ordeal in solitude. He takes leave of his friends, his parish, and holes up in an old monastery. His grudges against the Lord; his doubts about his sense of faith along with his own weaknesses are what he tries to drown in hard manual labor. Living in isolation, however, hardly brings any solace. Soon the suffering and lack of tolerance he incurs make him leave the order. He sets himself on the road to end his life... but unexpectedly there is hope. His encounter with a trio of young travelers shows him life in a new light and will lead him to Pawel, his old musician friend and the brother of one of the young junkies Jan used to help. This unusual journey will make Jan face up not only to his disease but also to those he used to teach once only to leave them without a word.


LINKS

http://www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php?siteID=12&ID=228

http://www.nypff.com/wocms.php?siteID=12&ID=228

http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_seweryn_andrzej




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