Chemo

Chemia, 2015, 104 min.

Chemo (2015)

Awards

2016
Koszalin Debut Film Festival “Młodzi i Film”
Best Actress for Agnieszka Zulewska

2015
Bali International Film Festival “Balinale”
Best Foreign Film

Production

Director Bartosz Prokopowicz
Screenplay Katarzyna Sarnowska
Cinematography Jeremi Prokopowicz
Music Natalia Grosiak,
Dawid Korbaczynski
Art Direction Katarzyna Filimoniuk
Producer(s) Katarzyna Sarnowska, Klaudia Smieja, Bartosz Prokopowicz, Stanislaw Dziedzic

Cast

Lena Agnieszka Zulewska
Benek Tomasz Schuchardt
Panda Eryk Lubos
Doctor Sowa Danuta Stenka
Grazniew Anita Jancia-Prokopowicz
Doctor X Robert Wabich
Doctor Konrad Adam Woronowicz
Tosia Zofia Pietrzykowska
Elizka Sandra Staniszewska
Story

An energetic and emotional tale of love, courage, struggling with illness, and maturing in its shadow. Everything begins one sunny day with a chance meeting between Lena and Benek, who seem not to have a lot in common, but who are brought together by an unexpected, electrifying feeling. There can be only one result of their love at first sight: they start a relationship and try to deal with Lena’s cancer together. The plot of the film was inspired by a true story of Magdalena Prokopowicz, the founder of the Rak’n’Roll foundation who died in 2012, and who was one of the first people in Poland to talk about cancer and her fight with the disease in a loud and often uncompromising way.