Mr. Kuka’s Advice

One day, Waldemar decides to go abroad and visit the West. He turns for advice to Mr. Kuka who gives him a few lessons on how he should behave there and why he should be careful not to come back in a “How can I serve you?” T-shirt. Kuka suggests that Waldemar go to Vienna. But already on a bus stop, the man starts to suspect that Mr. Kuka’s lessons not necessarily correspond with the reality.

Written by: Dariusz Gajewski,
Director of photography: Wojciech Szepel
Music by: Michał Litwiniec, Tomasz Sikora, Paweł Czepułkowski
Production design by: Nikolai Ritter
Sound: Bettina Mazakarini
Editing: Jarosław Barzan, Jarosław Kamiński
Costume design by: Monika Buttiger
Production manager: Wernfried Nattern-Konradi
Produced by: Opus Film
Producers: Piotr Dzięcioł, Matias Forberg, Ewa Puszczyńska, Heinz Stussak
Co-produced by: Prisma Films; TVP SA
Distributed by: Fundacja Promocji Kina Film Polski
World sales: Atlas International Film GmbH
Country and year of production: Poland, Austria 2008
Cast: Łukasz Garlicki (Waldemar), August Diehl (Lothar), Nadia Cameron-Blakey (Irina), Andrzej Grabowski (Mr. Kuka), Anna Przybylska (Ala), Mirosław Zbrojewicz (Arnold), Łukasz Simlat (chav), Krzysztof Stroiński (“priest”), Tomasz Karolak (Mirek), Lech Mackiewicz (silver-haired man), Branko Samarowski (Bernstein), Krista Stadler (Simacek)
Length: 94 min.