The Rebound

A psychiatrist Piotr lives in a relationship with a young woman who knows barely anything about his past. One day, his son whom he hasn’t seen for a long time is admitted to the hospital where he works. The son is soon released and regardless of his efforts, Piotr fails to create a family bond between them. Dramatic events in the hospital and misunderstandings between him and the fiancée finally throw Piotr off the balance. It turns out that for years he’s been struggling with drug addiction. When it seems that he won the fight, the addiction strikes back…

Written by: Kinga Dębska
Director of photography: Wojciech Staroń
Music by: Marcin Kuczewski
Production design by: Marek Zawierucha
Set decorator: Zdzisław Kobyliński
Sound: Leszek Freud, Petr Cechak
Editing: Ewa Romanowska-Różewicz PSM
Costume design by: Małgorzata Obłoza
Make-up: Ewa Drobiec, Ewa Kowalewska
Production manager: Anna Wojdat
Produced by: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
Producer: Zbigniew Domagalski
Co-produced by: Infilm Praha
Distributed by: tbc
World sales: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
Country and year of production: Poland and Czech Republic, 2009
Cast: Paweł Królikowski (Piotr), Anna Geislerová (Hanka, Piotr’s partner), Lesław Żurek (Kamil, Piotr’s son), Magda Biegańska (Maria), Bartosz Żukowski (“Mały”), Monika Kwiatkowska-Dejczer (Ewa, a patient), Katarzyna Cynke (Magda, a counsellor), Janusz Chabior (Malec, a patient), Anna Gornostaj (Marta), Przemysław Bluszcz (Maciek, a counsellor), Henryk Talar (Weiss), Bartłomiej Topa (Radek, a patient), Maciej Maleńczuk (Mirek, a patient)
Length: 84 min.