Lęk wysokości, 2011, 90 min.
2011
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
Special Mention of the International Jury for the Cinematographer Piotr Niemyjski
Mumbai Film Festival
The Silver Gateway Award
Gdynia Polish Film Festival
Best Directorial Debut for Bartosz Konopka;
Best Make-up Award for Janusz Kaleja
| Director | Bartosz Konopka | |
| Screenplay | Piotr Borkowski, Bartosz Konopka | |
| Cinematography | Piotr Niemyjski | |
| Music | Maciej Cieslak | |
| Art Director | Elwira Pluta | |
| Producers | Jacek Bromski, Dariusz Gajewski, Ewa Jastrzebska |
| Tomek | Marcin Dorocinski | |
| Tomek’s Father | Krzysztof Stroinski | |
| Tomek’s Mother | Dorota Kolka | |
| Ewa, Tomek’s Wife | Magdalena Poplawska | |
| Doctor Druch | Anna Dymna | |
| Malik | Mieczyslaw Grabka |
It is quite clear that the harsh, quick-tempered and choleric old man needs his son, Tomek. He needs him just as Tomek as a small boy needed his father and loved him. A father who, despite his fear of heights, went on great mountain climbing trips with his boy, as the film depicts in suggestively staged flashbacks.
In this fight of a son for his father, Bartosz Konopka creates scenes and images, the likes of which have not been seen in the cinema since Kieslowski’s Decalogue cycle. Raw, unsettling pictures of a search for a father, the visual intensity and emotional power of which remain long in the memory.