BIRTHDAY

POLISH TITLE: URODZINY

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Szymon is a quite well-off doctor. The sixtieth birthday of his father is the moment when he decides to slow down and think about himself and his own life. He has a premonition that if nothing changes, an inevitable total catastrophe will happen. He is thinking of the approaching baldness, the girlfriend who he lives with but does not love, though he could. Looking at his parents, he sees his future defeat.


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GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
25'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Maciej Sobieszczański
SCRIPT:
Maciej Sobieszczański
DOP:
Jacek Podgórski
EDITOR:
Andrzej Dąbrowski
CAST:
Maciej Marczewski, Katarzyna Dąbrowska, Krzysztof Globisz, Dorota Kolak
MUSIC:
Bartłomiej Gliniak
PRODUCTION:
Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio), TVP S.A., Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Kreativa

Maciej Sobieszczański »

Graduate of the Screenwriting Study at the National Film School in Łódź and the Master School of Film Directing of Andrzej Wajda. Author of scripts for movies, television and theater, including "An Ordinary thing" – 2009, director: Valentin Wasyanowicz, Ukraine. "A simple story about love" - director: Arkadiusz Jakubik, "The Spanish fraudster" - crime drama - realization in TVP Kultura, director: Miroslaw Zbrojewicz. For two years now he has been working as a lecturer at the Master School of Film Directing of  Andrzej Wajda, as well as at  the Film School in Łódź.