Two TVP's films: "Heritage" by Andrzej Barański and "Declaration of Immortality" by Marcin Koszałka have been selected for the Karlovy Vary IFF's competitions. The festival will present 179 feature films and will start on July 1.
The brand new Andrzej Barański's film, to be shown in the Main Competition, has been produced by Skorpion Arte and TVP. It is an adaptation of the novel of a young Polish writer - Zbigniew Pasternak. Zbyszek is dispelled of his studies of law and gets back to home in a small village in a remote part of a country. There he is known by a nick name "Prince" that he earned because of the stories his late father - drunkard used to tell about them being the descendants of an old Slavic clan of Vistulans. This assumed princely origin separated Zbyszek from coevals in the past. Now, when he returns home humiliated by his numerous failures, the adversity brings him closer to the surrounding poor souls, so similar to himself. The film's screenings in Karlovy Vary will be its International Premiere.
Produced by TVP1, "Declaration of Immortality" is a portrait of Piotr "Mad" Korczak - a legend among Polish climbers, who initiated the whole range of various techniques of "conquering" the walls, and was the first to begin to consider climbing as a sport. Now Marcin Koszalka - a film director and one of Piotr's former followers - asks him inevitable questions about the impact of age: How does he deal with a passage of time? How does he perceive youth and growing old? How he expects his end will look like? Piotr "Mad" Korczak's insights on the existential nature of physical activity and at the same time on a nature of filmmaking form a pedestal over which spreads a magnificent and breathtaking picture of human ability to climb over the highest tops and to conquer the most difficult mountains.
The film has been recently awarded at the Tampere Short Film Festival, Trento Mountain Film Festival and got the prestigious Silver Hugo Prize for the documentary film in the Hugo TV Awards 2011 in Chicago. It will take part in the Karlovy Vary's Documentary Film Competition.
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