{mosimage} Joanna is a story of a young Polish pianist who has to cope alone while she waits for her husband to come back from the front. She meets a little Jewish girl named Rose whose mother was taken by the German soldiers and decides to take care of her. Joanna knows that she cannot keep Rose with her as she is already under observation, but she fails to find a hiding spot for Rose and is forced to become the lover of a German officer in return for protection. Her Polish family and members of the fighting underground decide to punish her for fraternizing with the enemy.
{mosimage} Falk is a prominent film and theater director, with over 20 movies as well as film scripts, theater plays, and television and radio productions. A graduate of the Academy of Arts and Directing faculty at the Łódź Film School (www.filmschool.lodz.pl), he is also a painter and a graphic artists. Falk is a leader of the Polish "cinema of moral anxiety" with his Top Dog and Chance as the main representatives of the genre. His film prizes include Best Directing for Bohater Roku (Man Of The Year) and AWOL during the Gdynia PFP (www.fpff.pl) and the 2005 Polish Eagles Award (www.fundacjapolskieorly.pl) as well as Golden Lions Award for the Polish Oscar candidate movie The Collector.
{mosimage} Joanna was shot in October and November 2009 in Cracow. The film was produced by Akson Studio (www.akson-studio.pl) with a budget of 4.6 million PLN (EUR 1.1 million) with 2.3 million PLN financing from the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) and 500,000 PLN from the National Culture Center (www.nck.pl).
Joanna will open in Polish cinemas in the first quarter of 2011 and will be nationally distributed by ITI Cinema (www.iticinema.com.pl).
Crew:
Director - Feliks Falk
Screenwriter - Feliks Falk
Cinematographer - Piotr Śliskowski
Music - Bartłomiej Gliniak
Set design - Anna Wunderlich
Costumes - Magdalena Biedrzycka
Production managers - Paweł Gabryś, Dagmara Bończyk
Producer - Michał Kwieciński
Production company - Akson Studio
Co-financing - Polish Film Institute, National Culture Center
Cast:
Urszula Grabowska, Stanisława Celińska, Sara Knothe, Joachim Assböeck
Production contact:
Akson Studio Sp. z o.o.
ul. Stępińska 22/30
00-739 Warszawa
NIP 521-341-70-63
tel. 022 840.68.34
fax 022 841.77.82
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