Jasminum

Comedy with a touch of bitterness. The town of Jaśminów. Camaldolese monastery. Within its walls, five monks serve God: prior – father Kleofas, friar Zdrówko and three friars whose names express their extraordinary feature: Śliwa, who smells like a plum, Czeremcha, who smells like a bird cherry, and Czereśnia, who smells like a wild cherry. One day, an attractive woman with a little girl arrives at the monastery commissioned by the church authorities to renovate its paintings. During the day, she works on the canvases. In the evening, closed in the attic, she’s engaged in strange practices: she opens her trunk, takes out little bottles with essential oils, graduated cylinders, pipettes and distillation flasks and starts her alchemic experiments.

Written by: Jan Jakub Kolski
Director of photography: Krzysztof Ptak
Music by: Zygmunt Konieczny
Production design by: Joanna Doroszkiewicz
Costume design by: Ewa Helman
Editing: Witold Chomiński
Sound: Jacek Hamela
Cast: Adam Ferency (prior – father Kleofas), Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska (Natasza), Janusz Gajos (friar Zdrówko), Krzysztof Pieczyński (friar Czeremcha), Grzegorz Damięcki (friar Śliwa), Franciszek Pieczka (Saint Roch), Bogusław Linda (Zeman, actor), Krzysztof Globisz (mayor), Dariusz Juzyszyn (friar Czereśnia), Cezary Łukaszewicz (young friar Czeremcha), Monika Dryl (Patrycja), Marta Dąbrowska (Angel)
Produced by: MS Films
Co-produced by: Polish Television Film Agency, Canal+ Polska, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
Executive producer: Grażyna Kozłowska
Producer: Michał Szczerbic
Co-financed by: Agencja Produkcji Filmowej