Section: Regio: Lower Silesia

UŁASKAWIENIE

PARDON

Jan Jakub Kolski
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2018, 100 Min

Trauma can be unforgiving, representing as they do the outermost edge of life and the point at which the chill of death is felt most acutely. Those forced to shoulder the burden have no choice but to prevail. Only thus can they return to normality.

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War the son of an ageing couple is shot dead by the communist secret police. The youngster fought on the side of the Home Army which, after the war, goes underground in order to put up resistance to communist rule. The parents resolve to transport their child's defiled corpse to their distant home-town and bury him there. Having placed his body in a coffin, they set off with a horse cart across a post-war landscape ruled by marauding soldiers, army units, fugitive former Nazi fighters and partisans. The journey sees the couple rekindle their love for one another in a world characterised by brute force.

Despite its seeming simplicity the film's narrative form draws heavily on magic realism, in turn characteristic of Jan Jakub Kolski's earlier works. In the process the tale evolves into a poignant metaphor on human dignity and the limits thereof. At the same time PARDON is a suspenseful “road movie”, set to a rough, lawless backdrop caught between war and peace in which survival takes priority above all else. KM

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / Colour
Drehbuch
Jan Jakub Kolski
Kamera
Julian A.Ch. Kernbach
Ton
Ivan Horak
Schnitt
Konrad Śniady
Ausstattung
Paulina Korwin-Kochanowska, Urszula Korwin-Kochanowska
Musik
Paweł Juzwuk
Darsteller
Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Jan Jankowski, Michał Kaleta
Produzent
Paweł Kosuń, Agnieszka Janowska
Produktion
Wytwórnia Doświadczalna
Kontakt
Wrocławska Fundacja Filmowa
Patrycja Strzyżewska
strzyzewska@wrocff.com.pl
Kościuszki, 35A/ I piętro
Wrocław, 50-011
Poland
+48 721834701
Jan Jakub Kolski

Jan Jakub Kolski - born in 1956 in Wrocław, Poland. Director, screenwriter, producer, cameraman. He has made numerous short films, feature films and documentaries. In addition to filmmaking, he writes books and plays. He is also a member of the Polish Film Academy and teaches at the National Film School in Łódź, where he himself studied in the 1980s.

Movies
JANCIO WODNIK (1993, FFC 1994)
HISTORIA KINA W POPIELAWACH (1998)
WENECJA (2010, FFC 2010)
ZABIĆ BOBRA (2012)
LAS, 4 RANO (2016)