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Magnezja

Cinematographers' Debuts Competition

Cinematographer: Paweł Chorzępa

Director: Maciek Bochniak

Producer: Aneta Hickinbotham, Leszek Bodzak

Writer: Maciek Bochniak, Mateusz Kościukiewicz

Production designer: Marek Warszewski

Editor: Jacek Drosio

Cast: Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Chyra, Borys Szyc, Dawid Ogrodnik, Magdalena Boczarska, Maja Ostaszewska, Małgorzata Gorol, Mateusz Kościukiewicz

Production Company: Aurum Film

Distribution company: Kino Świat Sp. z o.o.

Year: 2020

Country: Poland

Time: 119

The 1920s and 1930s Polish-Soviet borderland is a troubled area, not because of the recent war, but because of the prowling, feuding bands of bandits and pillagers. The Polish gang is led by ruthless women. Before another woman - a law enforcement officer - steps in to save the day, Siamese brothers will put their devious plan into motion, and plenty of other eccentric characters will appear. The film, inspired by the prose of Sergiusz Piasecki, is full of morbid humour and combines patterns known from picaresque novels and westerns. The picture’s director has called it a ‘gangster tragicomedy’.

Cinematographers' Debuts Competition