Toys takes a look at the circumstances which shaped the imaginations of today's generation of Polish artists and designers.
‘Hakawati’ in the Arab tradition is a master of storytelling, a brilliant raconteur who tells stories to everybody willing to listen. Hakawati played a very important role in the Arab culture: they gathered crowds of people eager to hear new fairy tales and strange stories. And now there are no real Hakawati left. In the contemporary world people have no time to listen to stories. The director sets off to search for true storytellers and finds the remnants of the tradition, which, unfortunately, are rather for camera‑holding tourists than local people.
written and directed: Paweł Józwiak – Rodan cinematographer: Anna Rzepka, Paweł Józwiak – Rodan edited by: Agnieszka Kowalczyk production manager: Maciej Domagalski producer: Piotr Śliwinski (Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop), executive producers: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop production: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop, Telewizja Polska S.A. co-financed by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej (The Polish Film Institute) year: 2011
Krzysztof Komeda – a Polish medic, Jazz pianist and film composer. His music gained cult-status in Poland. Everywhere else in the world especially his soundtracks stay in mind forever. With compositions like the lullaby for Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of film music.
Photos from Filip Bajon's movie, based on classic drama by Aleksander Fredro
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Piotr is a psychiatrist. He has reputation, beautiful women, comfortable life. He loses all these because of heroin.
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Toys takes a look at the circumstances which shaped the imaginations of today's generation of Polish artists and designers.
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Photos from Filip Bajon's movie, based on classic drama by Aleksander Fredro
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