16-09-2008

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Road to Paradise

By Krzysztof Kwiatkowski

    Marta Plucinska, producer of Road to Paradise, says that director Gerwazy Regula's film about a single mother working in a slaughterhouse who discovers she has a gift for healing, follows in the style of Mike Leigh's cinema.

    Active ImageRegula's credits include numerous TV productions and commercials. He was also the assistant director for Angelus by Lech Majewski. In 2001 he won the 3rd prize in the Polish edition of the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Contest for his screenplay Krasnal (The Gnome). His first feature film Los Chłopacos was inspired by John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy.

    Road to Paradise is produced by Frederico Film in cooperation with The Documentary and Feature Films Studio. The budget was 1.6 million zlotys, with 1 million subsidized by the Polish Film Institute. The film was also co-financed by the Lower Silesian Province Marshal Office.Active Image

    The cast includes popular TV actors Przemyslaw Sadowski, Aleksandra Wozniak, Krzysztof Stelmaszczyk, as well as an outstanding actor Krzysztof Globisz. The shooting took place between October 15 and November 30, 2007, in Wlen near Jelenia Gora nad Mrzezyno. The film will be distributed by Vacat, a new company on the Polish market.

    Directing: Gerwazy Reguła
    Screenplay: Gerwazy Reguła
    CinematographyJeremiasz Prokopowicz:
    Music: Gerard Lebik
    Art direction: Ewa Tarnowska
    Sound: Piotr Bielawski
    Film editing: Łukasz Szwarc-Bronikowski
    Costume Design: Małgorzata Ajzelt
    Production Manager: Paweł Pluciński
    Production: Federico Film, Marta Plucińska
    Producer: Marta Plucińska
    Co-producers: Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, dyrektor Włodzimierz Niderhaus; Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, dyrektor Agnieszka Odorowicz; Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Dolnośląskiego
    Distribution: Vacat
    World distribution: Federico Film
    Country & year of production: Poland 2007
    Cast:
    Ilona Ostrowska
    Przemysław Sadowski
    Aleksandra Woźniak
    Krzysztof Globisz
    Teresa Sawicka
    Krzysztof Stelmaszyk

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