A DEAD MARRIAGE
POLISH TITLE: MARTWE MAŁŻEŃSTWO
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Filip works as a professional movie extra and he always plays roles of dead bodies. On the set of a historical film, he meets Lucy, who happens to be also an extra, playing a role of a dead woman. When laying on top of each other during long film making hours a bittersweet relationship develops between them in the unusual circumstances.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 18'
- YEAR:
- 2022
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Michał Toczek
- SCRIPT:
- Michał Toczek, Ola Hulbój
- DOP:
- Tomasz Pawlik
- EDITOR:
- Aleksandra Kasprowicz
- CAST:
- Sebastian Stankiewicz, Marta Ścisłowicz
- MUSIC:
- Pimon Lekler
- SOUND:
- Artur Walaszczyk
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Michał Toczek »
Film directing student in the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Director of award-winning short features and documentaries. His documentary debut “Strawberry Boys” was awarded at the Krakow Film Festival (2019), among others. Laureate of the Papaya Young Directors contest - one of the most prestigious competitions for young creators in Poland.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 38th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2022 (screening)
- 20th Tirana International Film Festival 2022, Albania, 2022 (competition)
- 28th Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2022 (competition)
- 10th West Nordic International Film Festival, Norway, 2023 (competition)
- 14th ONE Country ONE Film International Festival, France, 2023 (competition)