My Pole

Mój biegun, 2013, 87 min.

My Pole (2013)

Awards

2012
Los Angeles Movie Award
Best Screenplay, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Bartlomiej Topa, Best Music

2011
Accolade Global Film Competition
Award of Excellence

CINE Golden Eagle Award
Fiction Feature

Production

Director Marcin Glowaski
Screenplay Katarzyna Sliwinska-Klosowicz, Marek Klosowicz
Cinematography Dariuisz Rudzinski
Music Mateusz Pozpieszalski
Art Director Grzegorz Skawinski
Producers Marek Klosowicz, Krystyna Lason
Cast
Janek Mela, teenager Maciej Musial
Bogdan Mela, Janek’ Father Bartlomiej Topa
Urszula Mela, Janek’s MOther Magdalena Walach
Janek Mela, child Adam Tyniec
Doctor in Gdansk Roman Goncarczyk
Marek, Traveler Radoslaw Krzyzowski
Story
My Pole is a film about the youngest conqueror of both of Earth’s Poles – Johnny Mela. The boy who witnessed his younger brother’s death and a few years later had his arm amputated as a result of a severe electric shock lived through a total nervous breakdown. A broken family with a toxic father left the boy with no hope for a brighter future. It all changed when the father-son relationship eventually lead to what first seemed impossible: an amazing physical achievement by a disabled person – reaching the Pole.