People Next Door 2019 / Carte Blanche / Poland 2015
Popular secondary school teacher Kacper starts having problems with his vision and the medical prognosis is grim: soon he won’t be able to see at all. But Kacper refuses to surrender to his affliction; he is determined to prepare his class for their school-leaving exams, even if it means concealing his progressive disease from everyone around him. A drama based on a true story starring the outstanding Andrzej Chyra.
When Kacper, a popular secondary school teacher, starts having occasional problems with his vision, he doesn’t think it’s anything serious. His diagnosis, however, will soon confirm the opposite is true. He suffers from a genetic disorder, and total loss of sight is inevitable. But Kacper refuses to accept the prognosis and sets himself a seemingly impossible goal in order to keep a job he loves – to conceal his condition so that he can take his class right through to their school-leaving exams. Polish director Jacek Lusiński based Carte Blanche on a true story which he recast into an evocative study of a man who is gradually going blind; the film also embraces a universal message about the importance of human courage and lasting friendships. The excellent Andrzej Chyra stars as the charismatic teacher.
Anna Kořínek
106 min / Color, DCP
Director Jacek Lusiński
/ Screenplay Jacek Lusiński
/ Dir. of Photography Witold Płóciennik
/ Music Paweł Lucewicz
/ Editor Jarosław Barzan
/ Art Director Marek Zawierucha
/ Producer Leszek Bodzak
/ Production Aurum Film
/ Cast Andrzej Chyra, Urszula Grabowska, Arkadiusz Jakubik
/ Sales Media Move
Jacek Lusiński (b. 1969, Pabianice, Poland). Filmography: Pixels (Piksele, 2009), Carte Blanche (2015)
Media Move
Gieldowa 4c M54, 01-211, Warsaw
Poland
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