The 49th Polish Film Festival

The 49th Polish Film Festival

Gdynia 23-28.09.2024

Stranger

dir.

Małgorzata Szumowska

2004, 1 h 41 min

22-year-old Ewa leads a normal, boring life. She wasn’t accepted at a university, works on a gas station, lives with her parents and gets pregnant. When she learns that the child in her womb can hear, she starts telling it about the world. This conversation with a child gives her an opportunity to understand the world and her own life. A poetic story about life: love and hatred, joy and sadness, pain and forgiveness. And music.

Written by: Małgorzata Szumowska, Przemysław Nowakowski
Director of photography: Michał Englert
Music by: Paweł Mykietyn
Production design by: Marek Zawierucha
Set decorators: Anna Niemira, Andrzej Górnisiewicz
Costume design by: Anna Englert
Editing: Jacek Drosio
Sound: Maria Chilarecka, Błażej Kukla, Michał Dominowski
Cast: Małgorzata Bela (Ewa), Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska (mother), Marek Walczewski (father), Barbara Kurzaj (friend), Marcin Brzozowski (Michał)
Production managers: Mirosław Warchoł, Janusz Szela
Produced by: Pandora Film Produktion GmbH
Co-produced by: Polish Television Film Agency, MG Bavaria, STI Studio Filmowe, Eurimages, Filmstitung NRW
Executive producer: STI Studio Filmowe
Producers: Karl Baumgartner, Andrzej Serdiukow, Teresa Dworzecka
Distributed by: SPI International Polska
World sales: Bavaria Media

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