Journey to Rome is a Polish-Czech comedy. The main character, Vasek, is a timid man in his thirties. Influenced by a woman, he steals a painting from the Prague National Gallery and disguised as a woman, begins his journey to the Eternal City. Chased by the owners of antiquities’ shop and the police, he meets very unusual people on his way.
Chemo starring Agnieszka Zulewska, Tomasz Schuchardt, and Eryk Lubos is a story about love and the fight with disease. The film is inspired by the biography of the head of Polish charity Rak’n’Roll who helps people with cancer – Magdalena Prokopowicz. Prokopowicz was diagnosed with cancer when she was only 27. She made the decision about establishing a foundation in 2009, in the very symbolic moment of her life when she gave a birth to her son Leos, right after the chemo.
“It was the moment of an absolute opening, when I began to believe that I can fight for myself and I want fight for myself. I wanted to give people hope that they can shout that fight against cancer can be won, that they can live and work normally, that they can give a birth to a healthy child” – she said.
Magdalena Prokopowicz died in June 2012.
Source: PAP, edited by AW, translated by Barbara Bedka