CROWS [1994]
year:
- 1994
release date:
- 6 I 1995
runtime:
- 103 min
directed by:
- Dorota Kędzierzawska
written by:
- Dorota Kędzierzawska
director of photography:
- Arthur Reinhart
cast:
- Karolina Ostrożna [Crow], Katarzyna Szczepanik [Little One], Anna Prucnal [PE teacher], Małgorzata Hajewska [Crow’s mother], Ewa Bukowska [Little One’s mother], Krzysztof Grabarczyk [Little One’s father], Agnieszka Pilaszewska [Piotruś’ mother], Antoni Majak [an elderly man], Paul Verkade [a foreigner], Bartłomiej Topa [a police officer], Marek Bukowski [bridesgroom], Katarzyna Gajewska [baker girl], Kazimierz Rabski [a man]
edited by:
- Dorota Kędzierzawska, Arthur Reinhart
music by:
- Włodzimierz Pawlik
production design:
- Magdalena Kujszczyk
produced by:
- Studio Filmowe „Oko”, Telewizja Polska
executive producer:
- Paweł Rakowski
awards:
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• Polish Feature Film Festival Gdynia 1994: Special Jury Award, Golden Clapper − Radio Gdańsk award for the most applauded film, Journalists’ Award, "Non Stop Servis" award for Arthur Reinhart
• Don Quixote 1994
• International Festival of Cinematography Camerimage 1994: The Golden Frog in the main competition for Arthur Reinhart
• IFF for Children and Youth Bellinzona (Switzerland ) 1994: Grand Prix Bronze
• Comedy Film Festival Vevey (Switzerland) 1994: Charlie Chaplin Award
• IFF Cannes (France ) 1994: Coup de Coeur
• Lubusz Film Summer Łagów 1995: Diploma of the Polish Filmmakers Association
• International Young Audience Film Festival "Ale Kino!" Poznań 1996: Golden Goats, Poznań Goats award for best film, best director, best cinematography, best music, best performance awards for Karolina Ostrożna and Katarzyna Szczepanik, CIFEJ Award (International Film Centre for Children and Youth), the Marcin Children's Jury Award for best performance child for Katarzyna Szczepanik
About the film
A film about the need for love. The lack of it distorts the nature of this sensitive girl. An afternoon spent with a cheerful, confident child is a lesson in love for the heroine.
Nine-year-old Crow is brought up by her overworked single mother, who cannot devote much time to her child. Crow badly needs motherly love; its absence makes her full of hatred against the world. One day she sees a friendly little girl and kidnaps her from in front of the house. She starts to look after the Little One her own way. She is alternately tender and cruel. She feeds, bathes and dresses her. Little One responds to Crow’s anger with laughter. She is accustomed to tenderness and does not understand aggressive behaviour. Both girls go out into the world. They spend the evening on an old boat. The spoiled Little One asks Crow to sing songs and rock her to sleep. That night, Crow gives the sleeping child back to her parents. She goes back to an empty house. Her mother returns. Crow asks to be hugged.
Joanna Piątek, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
