Section: Feature Film Competition

lincz

lynch

Krzysztof Łukaszewicz
Poland, 2010, 81 Min

This film reconstructs the events surrounding one of the most disturbing and emotive court cases Poland has witnessed in recent years: in early July 2005 the inhabitants of a minor provincial town in north east Poland battered a previously convicted homeless person, who had terrorised them for weeks, to death.

The narrative begins on a hot summer’s day when the sixty-one-year-old Zaranek returns to the village where he resided prior to his latest prison term. Shortly after the village shop sales assistant refuses to sell him beer on credit, she is discovered in a pool of blood on the floor of her ravaged shop. She doesn’t dare go to the police, and when her neighbour does she is likewise found beaten up at the roadside shortly thereafter. A few days later Zaranek visits an old friend Basia; her refusal to reveal the whereabouts of her pension money sees her struck to the floor and when her neighbour attempts to alert the police Zaranek cuts her telephone wire with a machete. Soon, his wave of terror having encompassed ever greater numbers of local inhabitants, nobody feels safe. The locals request police protection; in vain however as the district as a whole possesses only one radio car, and this has been tasked with watching over a folk festival in the neighbourhood. “So many sturdy young men, and you don’t know how to deal with this grandpa?” a policeman asks the man who reports to the police post with a slashed arm...

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Krzysztof Łukaszewicz
Kamera
Witold Stok
Ton
Wojciech Slusarz
Schnitt
Milenia Fiedler
Ausstattung
Malgorzata Grabowska-Kozera
Musik
Jarosław Michał Papaj
Darsteller
Leszek Lichota, Lukasz Simlat, Maciej Mikolajczyk, Wieslaw Komasa, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Iza Kuna, Tamara Arciuch
Produzent
Włodzimierz Niderhaus
Produktion
WFDiF Warszawa
Co-Produktion
Zachodniopomorski Fundusz Filmowy Pomerania Film
Kontakt
WFDiF
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00-724 Warszawa
Poland
Tel: +48.22.841 26 83
Fax: +48.22.841 58 81
wfdif@wfdif.pl
Krzysztof Łukaszewicz

Krzysztof Łukaszewicz - – born 1976 in Szczecin. Studied economics and management, later journalism and political science in Warsaw. Has worked for several years in the Polish film and TV industries and published two novels. LINCZ is his directing debut.