Jasminum

2006, 103 min.

Jasminum (2006)

Awards

2006
Gdynia Polish Film Festival
Best Art Director Award for Joanna Doroszkiewicz

Production

Director Jan Jakub Kolski
Screenplay Jan Jakub Kolski
Cinematography Krzysztof Ptak
Music Zygmunt Konieczny
Art Director Joanna Doroszkiewicz
Producer Michal Szczerbiec

Cast

Father Kleofas, Convent Prior Adam Ferency
Natasza Grazyna Blecka-kolska
Brother Health (Zdrowko) Janusz Gajos
Brother Hagberry (Czeremcha) Krzysztof Pieczynski
Brother Plum (Sliwa) Grzegorz Damiecki
Sint Roch Franciszek Pieczka
Actor Zeman Boguslaw Linda
Mayor Krzysztof Globisz
Brother Cherry (Czeresnia) Dariusz Juzyszyn
Story

Jasminum is a comedy with a little bit of bitterness. It is situated in a Gamedolite order in the little town of Jasminow. There are five monks: Father Kleofas, who is the prior; Father Health, Father Plum, Father Hagberry and Father Cherry who are serving God within the walls of an order. The names of the three of them – Plum, Hagberry and Cherry, reflect the special feature of these monks: they smell like plum, hagberry and cherry. One day, a young woman with her little daughter arrive at the convent. The church authorities have hired her to preserve the paintings there. She keeps working during the day, but at night, she does strange things in the attic where she stays: she takes little bottles of fragrant oils, measuring glasses, pipettes, distilling flasks out of her trunk and starts alchemic experiments…