W imię…, 2013, 96 min.
2013
Essonne European Film Festival
Best Actor Award for Andrzej Chyra
Gdynia Film Festival
Silver Lion, Best Director for Malgorzata Szumowska & Best Actor for Andrzej Chyra
Berlin International Film Festival
Teddy Award
Milano International LGBT Film Festival
Best Film Award
Dortmund International Women’s Film Festival
Grand Prix
Director | Malgorzata Szumowska | |
Screenplay | Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert | |
Cinematography | Michal Engler | |
Music | Pawel Mykietyn, Adam Walicki | |
Art Director | Marek Zawieruch | |
Producer | Agnieszka Kurzydlo |
Priest Adam | Andrzej Chyra | |
Lukasz | Mateusz Kosciukiewicz | |
Ewa | Maja Ostaszewska | |
Lukasz’s Mother | Maria Maj | |
Adrian | Tomasz Schucharder | |
Teacher Michal | Lukasz Simlat | |
Gajo’s Mother | Maria Mamona |
Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioral problems who fight and yell abuse. He declines the advances of a young blonde named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for. However, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he meets ?ukasz, the strange and taciturn son of a simple rural family, Adam’s self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.