Judita is successful and wants more of it. Just like her audience, she has a soft spot for the sensational and funky. She posts a picture of the bloody disfigured victim from the scene of the accident – a reason for his wealthy family and their lawyers to publicly attack Judita. By the time a private nude photo with Judita appears online, she finds herself hopelessly stuck in a mud fight in which she is constantly forced to climb to the next level of investigation – she knows that she is dealing with professionals. During her research, she realizes too late that she is running into someone who has completely different intentions. Director Piotr Adamski called attention in 2019 with his dystopian arthouse suburban portrait EASTERN (FFC 2020), and now he's adding a bold dose of action. THE HIDDEN WEB is in the tradition of Polish mainstream films that commercially exploit real political and social scandals between wiretapping scandals, corruption and child abuse with dramaturgical verve, star potential and skillful genre craft – while simultaneously challenge the double standards of the current political establishment in Poland.
Text: Bernd Buder
The film will be shown in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.
Łukasz M. Maciejewski, Jakub Szamałek, Piotr Adamski based on the novel „The Hidden Web” by Jakub Szamałek
Tomasz Woźniczka
Jerzy Murawski, Krzysztof Owczarek, Robert Docew
Karolina Rec, Hubert Zemler
Magdalena Koleśnik
Andrzej Seweryn
Piotr Trojan
Wiktoria Gorodeckaja
Błażej Dąbrowski
Mikołaj Grabowski
Piotr Adamski - Born in 1982, visual artist and film director Piotr Adamski graduated from the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts and the Wajda School and has created exhibitions both in Poland and abroad. He is a winner of the Samsung Art Master competition and has twice received a Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship. His debut short, The Opening (2016), received several awards, including the Silver Hobby Horse for the Best Documentary at the 56th Krakow Film Festival (2016) and the Multimedia Polska Special Award for Creative Boldness at the 41st Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (2016).
2019 “Eastern”
2016 “Opening”