The Black Mercedes is set in Warsaw of 1942. Aneta, the beautiful wife of a respected barrister Karol Holzer, is killed in suspicious circumstances. Rafał Król, an officer of the Blue Police co-operating with the Germans, is trying to solve the case of the mysterious murder.

The main characters are played by Maria Dębska, Aleksandar Milicevic, Artur Żmijewski and Andrzej Zieliński.

“I decided to write the novel first and then make the film, because most Polish films about WWII were martyrologic and the dominant themes were the resistance to the Germans, the underground activity, the suffering of the population and the terror of the Nazis. I thought it was a one-sided approach. After all, for five years of war - I remembered it from my own experience – it was impossible to live only in fear and hunger. To survive, one had to try to make this life very normal”, director Janusz Majewski told FNE.

The film was produced by WFDiF in coproduction with TVP, with a budget of 2.9 EUR / 12.2 m PLN. The project received a production grant of 1.2 m EUR / 5 m PLN from the Polish Film Institute.

Production Information:

Producer:
WFDiF (Poland)
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Coproducer:
TVP (Poland)

Credits:
Director: Janusz Majewski
Screenwriter: Janusz Majewski
DoP: Arkadiusz Tomiak PSC
Music: Paweł Lucewicz
Production designer: Andrzej Haliński
Costume designer: Elżbieta Radke, Andrzej Szenajch
Sound: Krzysztof Jastrząb
Cast: Maria Dębska, Aleksandar Milicevic, Artur Żmijewski, Andrzej Zieliński, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Izabela Dąbrowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Łukasz Sikora, Natalia Rybicka, Bogusław Linda, Marcel Sabat, Andrzej Baranowski, Przemysław Bluszcz, Antoni Królikowski, Wiktor Zborowski, Krzysztof Chodorowski, Andrzej Mastalerz, Marian Opania, Jerzy Schejbal, Stefan Friedmann, Grzegorz Sierzputowski, Piotr Tołoczko, Maciej Winkler, Danuta Stenka, Vadim Brodskij