Mystification

It’s 1969. Expelled from a university just before his MA defense, Jakub Łazowski follows up a lead that may change the history. His investigation proves that Witkacy did not commit suicide in 1939. Clue by clue, the reality uncovers an unbelievable mystification. Witkacy’s lover brings to Desa her unknown portraits, one of his women form the past still keeps letters from the artist she got after his alleged death. Everything points to the fact that the great master and provocateur is still alive. Somewhere there, he drinks his beloved beer, peeps at young girls, gives women kinky orders and pursues the most beautiful of arts – lying and all its kinds: fast-one-pulling, neo-off-sponging, falsing, leg-pulling and yarn-spinning…

Directed by: Jacek Koprowicz

Written by: Jacek Koprowicz

Director of photography: Arkadiusz Tomiak

Music by: Włodek Pawlik

Production design: Jagna Janicka

Sound: Marek Wronko, Kacper Habisiak, Marcin Kasiński

Editing: Jarosław Kamiński

Costume design: Katarzyna Lewińska, Julia Jarża

Make-up: Tomasz Matraszek, Waldemar Pokromski

Production manager: Jan Kaczmarski

Produced by: Yeti Films

Producer: Piotr Mularuk, Magdalena Napieracz (Yeti Film)

Co-produced by: Syrena Films, WFDiF, Krakow Film Commission, Piramida Film, Film Factory, Hydra Film

Co-financed by: Polis Film Institute, Regional Film Fund in Krakow, the City of Krakow and Lesser Poland Voivoideship

Executive producer: Yeti Films

Distribution: Syrena Films

Actress in a leading role: Ewa Błaszczyk

Actor in a leading role: Maciej Stuhr

Actresses in leading roles: Ewa Dałkowska, Karolina Gruszka

Actors in leading roles: Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Andrzej Chyra