Hyena

Thriller. Silesia. Mały, a teenage boy, lives with his mother. His father died in a coal mine accident. Around the house, there’s only post-industrial wasteland: scattered metal parts, machine junk and marshes covered with reed. They say that in the reed lurks hyena who hunts people. Every day, on his way to school, the boy has to fight fear. In a wooden shed lives a strange man – soon a friend who promises to protect the boy from the hyena in exchange for food. The man hides from someone and Mały helps him the best he can. But in a town nearby children start to disappear. When Mały’s school mate vanishes, the boy starts to suspect the loner.

Written by: Grzegorz Lewandowski
Director of photography: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Music by: Grzegorz Kaźmierczak
Production design by: Marek Zawierucha, Sebastian Gomułka, Rafał Waltenberger
Costume design by: Maria Duffek
Make-up: Cezary Kostrzewski
Editing: Andrzej Tomczak
Sound: Artur Kuczkowski
Cast: Borys Szyc (the man, father, ice-cream man), Jakub Romanowski (Mały), Magdalena Kumorek (Mały’s mother), Krzysztof Dracz (policeman), Aleksander Wysocki (Bryndza), Robert Wabich (Arak), Alicja Bałuk (Bożenka), Wojciech Grzywa (Kurczak), Franciszek Gurgul (Duży)
Production manager: Rafał Widajewicz (Gruppa)
Produced by: Films Skorpion Art
Producer: Paweł Rakowski
World sales: Films Skorpion Art
Artistic supervision: Krzysztof Zanussi
Co-financed by: Polish Film Institute