Still from Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz' "Being Like Kazimierz Deyna", photo: Marcin Makowski/Scorpion Art
A story about family relations, growing up and love, a story portraying the essence of Poland during communism and its miraculous transformation. Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz' Being Like Kazimierz Deyna wins the Golden Fish for the Best Polish film at the 39th Summer Film Festival in the Polish city of Ińsk
The main character of the comedy drama Being Like Kazimierz Deyna / Być jak Kazimierz Deyna was born on the same as Kazimierz Deyna one of the most highly regarded football players of his generation. A movie in which "Deyna and Boniek score goals, white socks become an aphrodisiac, desire leads to purity, and a traditional Polish mother crushes Eastern markets", the motion picture is a careful selection of memories from communism in Poland.
Telling the story of Kazio, a small boy, Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz shows how society and the dreams of individuals changed alongside the change in surrounding political and economical circumstances in the country. Being Like Kazimierz Deyna is Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz's debut. A actress and director, a graduate of the Wroclaw Theatre School, she was highly parised for her "film impuls".
The Ińsk Summer Film Festival took place between the 10th and 19th of August 2012. It is one of Poland's oldest cyclical events and it known for screening Eastern European films that comment on the changes occurring in contemporary society. The 2012 Best Foreign Film award was given to Nadine Labaki for her film Where to now?
Sources: culture.pl, ww.ilf.org.pl, www.pisf.pl. www.gazeta.pl, www.e-teatr.pl, www.filmpolski.pl, Festival Scope
Editor: Marta Jazowska