THE SEQUENCE OF FEELINGS [1993]
year:
- 1993
release date:
- 15 V 1993
runtime:
- 83 min
directed by:
- Radosław Piowowarski
written by:
- Radosław Piwowarski
director of photography:
- Witold Adamek
cast:
- Daniel Olbrychski [Rafał Nawrot], Maria Seweryn [Julia Kasprusiak], Eugeniusz Priwieziencew [Julia’s father], Wojciech Siemion [theater director], Konrad Kujawski [Radek], Krystyna Tkacz [a prompter], Ewa Kasprzyk [Ewa, Nawrot’s lover], Barbara Dziekan [Julia’s mother], Agnieszka Krukówna [Eliza Lipko], Ewa Isajewicz-Telega [actress Skiba, a Solidarity activist]
edited by:
- Wanda Zeman
music by:
- Jerzy Satanowski
production design:
- Dorota Ignaczak
produced by:
- Studio Filmowe „Tor”
executive producer:
- Iwona Ziułkowska
awards:
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• Polish Feature Film Festival Gdynia 1993: Grand Prix Golden Lions (ex equo with Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s Pekosiński’s Case)
• Golden Duck 1994
About the film
The story of an affair between a jaded fifty-year-old and a schoolgirl, sometimes naive, sometimes too mature, is told with humour (even irony) and charm. A successful debut for Maria Seweryn, daughter of Krystyna Janda and Andrzej Seweryn.
A fifty-year-old famous actor arrives in a provincial town to play Shakespeare's Romeo in the local theatre. However, having met the actresses with whom he is to act, he slips out of the theatre and tries to escape from the city. On his way, he is stopped by a girl, Julia, with a childlike face and the movements of a boy. It is thanks to her that the Master stays in the city.
The initial game and fascinations give way to true feelings: they become lovers. Horrified by what he has done, the Master tries to send Julia back home. His journey to the land of his youth ends with him having a heart attack and a stay in a sanatorium, where Julia visits him with her boyfriend, asking never to forget her.
Donata Zielińska, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
