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Imago

Proxima Competition 2023 / Imago / Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic 2023

Synopsis

It is 1987 and the wind of change will soon also be sweeping across communist Poland. Ela is a young woman seeking refuge from the insipidness of a life hallowed by the regime, mixing with artists on the alternative scene, singing in clubs with her post-punk band, and attending alcohol-fuelled parties… In her second film director Olga Chajdas summons up vital energy to invigorate the music scene of the Baltic Tricity and, aided by the charismatic actress and co-scripter Lena Góra, she offers the viewer a vivid portrait of a multilayered character – an inspirational artist forever enveloped in cigarette smoke, a woman struggling with her inner demons, yet also a fragile creature yearning for motherly love.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

113 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Olga Chajdas / Screenplay Lena Góra, Olga Chajdas / Dir. of Photography Tomasz Naumiuk / Music Smolik / Sound Jan Schermer, Ivan Horák / Editor Pavel Hrdlička / Art Director Anna Anosowicz / Producer Izabela Wójcik, Violetta Kamińska, Dariusz Jabłoński / Production Apple Film Production / Coproduction Topkapi Films, Moloko Film / Cast Lena Góra, Bogusława Schubert, Wojciech Brzeziński, Mateusz Więcławek, Wacław Warchoł, Łukasz Orbitowski, Justyna Wasilewska / Contact Apple Film Production, Marijana Harder