The film is a Romanian-French-Polish coproduction set to open in Romania in the second half of 2015.
Adam Jacek Winkler was a photographer and a mountaineer who moved to Paris as a political refugee and fought as Adam Khan in Afghanistan on the side of the mujahideen in the 1980’s. He climbed Mont Blanc, leaving there a solidarity flag with the Afghan people and died while on another solitary climb.
Damian is producing through Aparte Film in coproduction with Benedicte Thomas and Guillaume de Seille through the Paris-based company Arizona Films Distribution, and Wlodek Matuszevski from the Polish production company Filmograf. The Romanian National Center for Cinema gave it a production grant of 95,000 EUR in April 2013. The Polish Film Institute is also supporting the project with a production grant of 120,000 EUR.The budget is 978,000 EUR.
The project was recently presented at Cartoon Movie in Lyon (5-7 March 2014). The Magic Mountain will use the photographic archive of Adam Jacek Winkler as well as his drawings and original shooting imitating the silent movies.
The animation is being created at the Romanian studios DSG and Abis Studio and also in Poland. The animation and graphic team is composed of Theodore Ushev, Raluca Popa, Dan Panaitescu, Sergiu Negulici, Dragos Stefan, and Tomek Ducki. The acclaimed Romanian-born London-based violonist and composer Alexander Balanescu will write the score.
Production Information
Aparte Film
Calea Călăraşi, nr. 165
Bucharest,Romania
Phone: +40 213204128
+40 318084046
www.aparte-film.net
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Arizona Films Distribution
5, Boulevard Barbes
75018 Paris
www.arizonafilms.net
Phone: +33 9 54 52 55 72
Filmograf
ul.Niedźwiedzia 29B
02-737 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: + 48 22 8455345
+ 48 603773537
Fax: + 48 22 8455345
www.filmograf.com.pl
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Credits
Director: Anca Damian
Script: Anca Damian and Ania Winkler
Animation and graphics: Theodore Ushev, Raluca Popa, Dan Panaitescu, Sergiu Negulici, Dragos Stefan,Tomek Ducki
Composer: Alexander Balanescu
