East of the West - Competition 2004 / Dotknij mnie / Poland 2003
Lodz, a dilapidated apartment building. Two film school graduates are having a tough time finding work; nothing but trouble comes their way. Teenage Anna is having problems with her mom. Her mom’s life in turn is complicated by a young policeman who has been making advances towards her. Commercial kitsch mingles with the draining greyness of reality but still they’ve all got to get along somehow.
Lodz. Film school grads Sylwek and Piotrek live in a dilapidated apartment squat and can’t seem to scrounge up a job. They appear in a stupid commercial, and in the evening they stare through windows at others’ lives. The young men head for the unemployment office but there is nothing on offer. They go to a department store to visit their friend Wojtek, a mini-sauna salesman. In the evening the guys invade a local sex joint. Sylwek then cruelly humiliates his admirer, the teenage Karolina. Anna is in conflict with her mother Ewa and her mom’s partner. Policeman Grzegorz comes to calm the arguing family and becomes enchanted by the neurotic Ewa. He determines to arrange a meeting with her. After being chased off the nighttime streets by Grzegorz, Anna tries out her feminine wiles on the pragmatic Wojtek. Sylwek and Piotrek have nothing to do, no place to be. Grzegorz continues to seek out Ewa, Anna continues seeking a sexual experience...
82 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Ewa Stankiewicz, Anna Jadowska
/ Screenplay Anna Jadowska, Ewa Stankiewicz
/ Dir. of Photography Robert Mleczko
/ Editor Robert Ciodyk
/ Producer Joanna Strzelecka
/ Production Bendom Film, koprodukce / coproduction: Polish Television Film Agency
/ Cast Ewa Szykulska, Sylwester Jakimow, Piotr Miazga, Grzegorz Stosz
/ Contact Bendom Film, Polish Television Film Agency, Kino Swiat, Film Polski Promotion Agency
www: dotknijmnie.3c.pl
Anna Jadowska (b. 1973, Oleśnica) graduated in Polish language and literature from Wroclaw University; since 1999 she has been studying direction at Lodź National Film, Television & Theatre School (PWSFTViT). She has shot the shorts A Boy and a Girl (Chłopak i dziewczyna, 2000), Golden Shoes (Złote pantofelki, 2002) and the documentaries A Couple in Love (Zakochana para, 2001) and Holidays in Sucha (Wakacje na Suchej, 2002).
Ewa Stankiewicz (b. 1967, Wroclaw) graduated in Polish language and literature from Wroclaw University and in direction from Lodź National Film, Television & Theatre School (PWSFTViT). She has worked in television and radio (Radio Wrocław, Delta Air Lines, Radio Des Droits de Homme-Paris), winning various awards for her radio broadcasts. Her filmography includes the shorts A Prayer for Random People (Modlitwa za przypadkowych kurzi), Acquaintances by Sight (Znajomi z widzenia), Tram People (Tramwajowi ludzie), and the documentaries Stupid Riddles (Głupie zagadki) and Division Marketing (Dywizja marketing).
Bendom Film
Lakowa 29, 90-554, Lodz
Poland
Phone: +48 426 346 900
Fax: +48 426 346 900
E-mail: [email protected]
Polish Television Film Agency
J.P.Woronicza 17, 00-999, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 22 547 8167
Fax: +48 22 547 4225
E-mail: [email protected]
Kino Swiat
Belwederska 20/22, 00-762, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 22 840 6801
Fax: +48 22 840 6806
E-mail: [email protected]
Film Polski Promotion Agency
Mazowiecka 6/8, 00-048, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 22 826 8630, +48 22 826 0849
Fax: +48 22 826 4051
E-mail: [email protected]
Jolanta Galicka
Festival Consultant, Producer
Ewa Stankiewicz
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