A story about two men, an older has-been actor and a successful younger actor, a celebrity who appears in commercials and current movies. Whatever drew them together, their past connection will be strained when the young actor learns that his casual lover is pregnant. Their relationship is drawing towards an inevitable end. The old actor concocts half-baked ideas that demonstrate his lack of understanding of contemporary show business. His growing senility is complicated by his inability to resolve his homosexual past, yet another symptom of his inability to keep pace with the modern world. All of which brings their relationship to a bitter end.
JERZY GRUZA
Born in 1932 in Warsaw . Television and theatre director and screenwriter, and an actor. He received his degree from the Directing Department of the Łódź Film School in 1985. As a screenwriter and director Jerzy Gruza made such feature. At the PFFF in 1976 he won the Audience Award with his film “I’m a Butterfly”. He is a creator of many TV theaters and TV series.
FILMOGRAPHY
2019 Dariusz
2002 Yyyreek! Cosmic Nomination (Yyyreek! Kosmiczna nonimacja)
2001 Gulczas, What Do You Think (Gulczas, a jak myślisz)
1999-2003 Tigers of Europe (Tygrysy Europy) – TV series
1992 Being Forty: 20 Years Later (Czterdziestolatek: 20 lat później) – TV series
1988 Gosia and Malgosia(Gosia i Małgosia) – TV series
1986 The Ring and the Rose (Pierścień i róża)
1980 Alice
1976 I’m a Butterfly (Motylem jestem)
1947-77 Being Forty (Czterdziestolatek) – TV series
1972 Moving (Przeprowadzka)
1970 The Woodpecker (Dzięcioł)
SCREENINGS
Gallery Theatre
(1112 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago)
Thursday, 21/11/2019 at 8:45 pm
2019, 73 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Direction/Reżyseria
JERZY GRUZA
Script/Scenariusz
JERZY GRUZA
Cinematography/Zdjęcia
WOJCIECH RAWECKI
Art Direction/Scenografia
JERZY GRUZA
Music/Muzyka
JERZY JAROSŁAW DOBRZYŃSKI
Editing/Montaż
ZBIGNIEW MARTAN
Sound/Dźwięk
REMIGIUSZ BOTIUK
Produced by/Produkcja
SYGNAL
Producer/Producent
JERZY GRUZA
Cast/Obsada
Jerzy Gruza (Older), Arkadiusz Gołębiowski (Younger), Tatiana Sosna-Sarno (Cashier), Jolanta Litwin (Bodyguard), Janusz Szydłowski (Priest), Rafał Dajbor (Bartander)
