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Ułaskawienie

Polish Films Competition

Cinematographer: Julian A. Ch. Kernbach

Director: Jan Jakub Kolski

Producer: Agnieszka Janowska, Jan Jakub Kolski, Paweł Kosuń

Writer: Jan Jakub Kolski

Production designer: Paulina Korwin-Kochanowska

Editor: Konrad Śniady

Cast: Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Jankowski, Wojciech Mecwaldowski

Production Company: Wytwórnia Doświadczalna

Distribution company: Wrocławska Fundacja Filmowa

Year: 2018

Country: Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic

Time: 95

The story is set in Poland, shortly after the end of the Second World War. Through the actions of the secret police (the Office for Security), the Communist authorities brutally crack down on soldiers of the Polish Home Army, who have the support of the majority of society. In the autumn of 1946, Wacław Szewczyk, alias Odrowąż, falls prey to the regime. The perpetrators don’t stop at taking his life, going as far as to defile his corpse. Hanna and Jakub Szewczyk set out on a long journey with a coffin containing his remains in order to give their son a proper burial in a remote, peaceful place. The road, fraught with danger, takes them through a country in which much of what the couple faces on their way contradicts the formulaic way of thinking of that era. This authentic story about the unbelievable escapades in Ułaskawienie was told from the point of view of Hanna and Jakub Szewczyk’s grandson, the director of the film, Jan Jakub Kolski. The deceased Wacław Odrowąż Szewczyk was his uncle. Ułaskawienie is a kind of road movie; however, the viewer may notice certain poetic elements from the Western genre.

Polish Films Competition