Ciało, 2015, 90 min.
2016
European Film Awards – People’s Choice Award for Best European Film;
Polish Eagles (Orly):
Best Film
Best Director for Malgorzata Szumowska
Best Actor for Janusz Gajos
Best Actress for Maja Ostaszewska
2015
European Film Award
Best European Editor for Jacek Drosio
Lima Central and Eastern Europe Film Festival, Peru:
Main Prize
Best Actor for Janusz Gajos
Vilius Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris”:
Best Actor for Janusz Gajos in Baltic Gaze Competition
PKO OFF Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, Krakow
Polish Feature Film Competition:
Main Prize (Polskie Noble Filmowe)
Best Actor for Janusz Gajos
Best Actress for Justyna Suwala
Berlin International Film Festival
Silver Bear for Best Director
Director | Malgorzata Szumowska | |
Screenplay | Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Engert | |
Cinematography | Michal Engert | |
Art Direction | Elwira Pluta | |
Producer(s) | Jacek Drosio, Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Engert |
Attorney | Janusz Gajos | |
Anna | Maja Ostaszewska | |
Olga, Attorney’s Daughter | Justyna Suwala, Ewa Dalkowska, Adam Woronowicz, Tomasz Zietek, Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Ewa Kolasinska, Roman Gancarczyk, Wladyslaw Kowalski |
Janusz is not a man to be easily shocked. As coroner he undertakes precise research, analyzing the crime scene in minute detail. Despite the extreme situations he comes up against, he works hard. Perhaps too hard. Yet when faced with his anorexic daughter Olga, still grieving for her dead mother, he feels helpless. Fearing that she might kill herself, he commits her to a clinic where Anna, a psychologist, carries out her duties. Years before, Anna lost her baby to cot-death and now sequesters herself and her big dog in a heavily barricaded flat and conjures up spirits who communicate with the living from beyond the grave …