Destined for Blues

Year 1993. A summer morning in Tychy, Silesia. Rysiek Riedel, the front man of Dżem, sets off with his group on a concert to Warsaw. It’s a special day and a special show in the life of this 37-year-old singer. Biography of the legendary Dżem leader. The story about an attempt to run away from the grim reality of the PRL into the world of music and then, unfortunately, drugs. The portrait of a charismatic artist in a dead and deadly end.

Written by: Przemek Angerman, Jan Kidawa-Błoński
Director of photography: Grzegorz Kuczeriszka
Music by: Dżem
Production design by: Joanna Białousz
Costume design by: Ewa Krauze
Editing: Cezary Grzesiuk
Sound: Paweł Fidala
Cast: Tomasz Kot (Ryszard Riedel), Jolanta Fraszyńska (Gola Riedel), Maciej Balcar (Indianer), Przemysław Bluszcz (Leszek Martinek, Dżem’s manager), Adam Bauman (Jan Riedel, Rysiek’s father), Joanna Bartel (Krystyna Riedel, Rysiek’s mother), Anna Dymna (Polowa, Gola’s mother), Zbigniew Zamachowski (janitor), Marcin Kwaśny (student), Barbara Majewska-Żuromska (usherette), Mirosław Baka, Beno Otręba, Adam Otręba, Paweł Berger, Jerzy Styczyński, Zbigniew Szczerbiński
Production manager: Zofia Wieczorek
Produced by: Gambit Production
Co-produced by: Polish Television Film Agency, Canal+ Polska, IF Max-Film, Dżem Sp.c., Sephia, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Agencja Written byowa
Executive producer: Gambit Production
Producers: Jan Kidawa-Błoński, Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska
Distributed by: ITI Cinema
World sales: Telewizja Polska S.A.