Red Spider Wins at Arras Film Festival
A Polish thriller that 'openly challenges pro-forma slasher pics’ has won the French Critics’ Award at the prestigious International Film Festival in Arras.
Documentary maker and cinematographer Marcin Koszałka’s directorial debut took part in the European Contest section of the festival. Icelandic film The Virgin Mountain, directed by Dágur Kari, won the main prize. Arras Film Festival is the second most important film festival in France after Cannes.
Red Spider is the shocking story of a Polish serial killer from the communist 1960s era,. The script was inspired by two characters from urban legends. It was based upon two sources. Lucjan Staniak (‘the Red Spider’) is a serial killer from the world of crime literature. In the real world, Karol Kot (known as ‘the Vampire from Kraków’) was one of the youngest serial killers ever and became a media celebrity in the 1960s. Both of these men inspired the filmmakers to create an original, fictional story full of suspense about the nature of crime.
Karol (Filip Pławiak) is an ordinary teenager. He comes from a good house, is a successful sportsman, and is in love. The moment he witnesses a crime is a turning point for him. Out of curiosity, he starts to follow the killer, who it turns out is a veterinarian (Adam Woronowicz). Karol enters into an emotional master-student relationship with the murderer and discovers a previously-unknown need within himself that scares him.
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The production company behind Red Spider is Mental Disorder 4, which earlier produced two widely-recognised films: In the Name of… and Baby blues. The premiere will take place on November 27th 2015.
Source: press release, Variety, edited by BS, translated by NMR.
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