Pokot, 2017, 128 min.
Director | Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | |
Screenplay | Olga Tokarczuk, Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel “Prowadz swoj pług przez kości umarłych“ by Olga Tokarczuk | |
Cinematography | Jolanta Dylewska, Rafal Paradowski | |
Music | Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz | |
Production Design | Joanna Macha | |
Producers | Krzysztof Zanussi, Janusz Wachala |
Duszejko | Agnieszka Mandat | |
Matoga | Wiktor Zborowski | |
Boros | Miroslav Krobot | |
Dyzio | Jakub Gierszal | |
Dobra Nowina/Good News | Patricia Volny | |
Wnętrzak | Borys Szyc |
Retired civil engineer Duszejko lives a secluded life in a mountain village close to the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. She is charismatic and eccentric, a passionate astrologer and a strict vegetarian. One day her beloved dogs disappear. On a snowy winter’s night shortly afterwards she discovers the dead body of her neighbor and, next to it, deer tracks. More men die in a similarly mysterious way. All of them were pillars of the village community, and all were passionate hunters. Were these men killed by wild animals? Or has someone been provoked to pursue a bloody vendetta? At some point Duszejko herself comes under suspicion …