Z daleka widok jest piękny
It Looks Pretty From A Distance
The directorial debut of visual artists Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal takes place in a secluded Polish village near the woods and a river. It is here where the story of a scrapper and a girl unfolds. In an air of ubiquitous secrecy, the villagers and the couple live their everyday dull lives of hardship until the scrapper vanishes. His disappearance triggers a chain of unexpected events. In strikingly beautiful surroundings, under a scorching sun, human evil surfaces. IT LOOKS PRETTY FROM A DISTANCE was screened at the New Horizons Film Festival 2011, where it got an award for Best New Polish Film.
Director's Biography
Anka Sasnal, born 1973 in Poland. She is an editor and scriptwriter and lives and works in Kraków, Poland. // Films: Z DALEKA WIDOK JEST PIEKNY (It Looks Pretty from a Distance, 2011) Wilhelm Sasnal, born 1972 in Tarnów, Poland. He is a painter, drawer, author of comic books and filmmaker, and his artistic works can be found among others in Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern or the Museum of Modern Art. // Films (Selected): ŚWINIOPAS (Swineherd, 2008), Z DALEKA WIDOK JEST PIEKNY (It Looks Pretty from a Distance, 2011)
CROSSING EUROPE AWARDS
2012: CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film
Competition Fiction 2012
Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal
Poland 2011
color
77 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal
Cinematography Wilhelm Sasnal/Aleksander Trafas
Editing Beata Walentowska
Sound/Sounddesign Igor Kłaczyński
With Marcin Czarnik, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Nowak, Elżbieta Okupska, Jerzy Łapiński, Hanka Chojnacka, Michał Pietrzak, Oskar Karaś, Beata Zygarlicka, Waldemar Czyszak, Dawid Wolski
Production
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