15-09-2015

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Life Must Go On

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    GDYNIA: Maciej Migas’s debut feature Life Must Go On will compete in the main competition at the 40th Gdynia Film Festival (14-19 September 2015). The film starring the popular actor Tomasz Kot, was released domestically on 28 August 2015.

    Life Must Go On follows Bartek, once a popular actor, who finds out that he has three months left to live. He decides to make the best of it, fix what can be fixed and strengthen the ties with his daughter. Cezary Harasimowicz wrote the script.

    The cast includes Janusz Chabior, Andrzej Konopka, Jacek Braciak, Ireneusz Czop and Adam Woronowicz. The film was shot on location in Warsaw, Budapest and Slovakia in September - November 2014.

    It was produced by Maciej Szwarc through Instytucja Filmowa Film-Art in coproduction with Dogoda Media, All, Kino Świat and Sweet Pepe Studio. The budget was 855,000 EUR / 3.6 m PLN of which 428,000 EUR / 1.8 m PLN came from the Polish Film Institute.

    Kino Świat is the local distributor handling the sales together with Instytucja Filmowa Film-Art.

    Production Information:
    Instytucja Filmowa Film-Art
    ul. Bułgarska 19
    60-320 Poznań, Poland
    Phone: (61) 867 18 95
    Fax: (61) 866 64 27
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    www.film-art.pl 

    Credits:
    Director: Maciej Migas
    Screenwriter: Cezary Harasimowicz
    DoP: Radosław Ładczuk PSC
    Music: Tomasz Wiracki
    Sound: Wojciech Ślusarz, Bartłomiej Bogacki, Sebastian Kordasz
    Cast: Tomasz Kot, Janusz Chabior, Andrzej Konopka, Jacek Braciak, Ireneusz Czop, Adam Woronowicz, Paulina Gałązka, Marta Malikowska, MagdalenaWalach, Robert Wabich, Michalina Olszańska, Agnieszka Wosińska, Jacek Beler, Jakub Wieczorek, Iwona Wszołkówna, Ewa Gawryluk, ZdzisławWardejn, Marek Frąckowiak, Olaf Deriglasoff, Wojciech Dąbrowski, Dawid Szomlo, Klaudia Waszak, Małgorzata Sadowska