YOUNG EAGLES

Cast
Feliks Matecki (Leon Rotman), Jowita Budnik (Leon’s Mother), Almira Nawrot (Ewelina Stolińska), Bartłomiej Topa (Greń), Filip Gurłacz (Leon’s Brother)

Grodno, eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On the 1st of September 1939 German planes bomb the city and one of the bombs hits Leoś, Ewelina and Tadek’s school. The world of carefree childhood, playfulness and first infatuations come to an end in both a literal and symbolic way. Leoś is twelve, a Jewish boy, fascinated with the Polish independence tradition.

By virtue of the Soviet-German treaty, the Red Army enters Poland on the 17th of September 1939, planning to take Grodno over on the 20th of September. The city starts a hopeless fight. Small military detachments are supported by civilians, especially school pupils. It is the children who courageously defend the city, falling victim to the awful cruelty of the occupiers.

KRZYSZTOF ŁUKASZEWICZ
Born in Szczecin in 1976. Film director and screenwriter. He graduated from theFaculty of Economics and Management of the University of Szczecin and in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Warsaw. Author of films “Lincz” and “Karbala” which received many awards (incl. the Special Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2015 Polish Film Festival in America in Chicago, the Golden Angel at the 2015 International Film Festival TOFIFEST Torun). At present, he has completed working on a docudrama Walcząca. Member of the Polish Film Academy.

FILMOGRAPHY
2022 Orleta. Grodno ’39
2015    Karbala
2012    Viva Belarus!
2010    Lincz
2009 General Nil

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2022, 104 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles

Direction/Reżyseria
KRZYSZTOF ŁUKASZEWICZ

Script/Scenariusz
KRZYSZTOF ŁUKASZEWICZ

Cinematography/Zdjęcia
TOMASZ WÓJCIK

Art Director/Scenografia
EWA SKOCZKOWSKA

Music/Muzyka
MICHAŁ LORENC

Editing/Montaż
MICHAŁ CZARNECKI

Sound/Dźwięk
WOJCIECH ŚLUSARZ