CUDAK

Cast
Kazimierz Mazur (Romek Cudakowski “Cudak”), Andrzej Kłak (Szymek Akerman), Diana Zamojska (Basia Cudakowska), Natalia Skrzypek (Łucja Cudakowska – young), Katarzyna Dominiak (Łucja Cudakowska – adult)

Roman Cudakowski, for Cudak’s friends, plays in a band at weddings and city events. During the occupation, the musician does not do well. A chance to earn money is entering the premises for Germans. However, they cannot imagine an orchestra without a violinist. Then Cudak takes the talented Szymon Akerman out of the ghetto for concerts, with whom he did not live in harmony before the war. In the new reality, both need each other: Cudak can earn money playing with Akerman, who in turn gains a chance to survive. One day, Roman decides to permanently take a violinist and his family from the ghetto to hide them at the risk of his life in his home.

ANNA KAZEJAK

Born in 1979 in Bytom. Graduated from the National Film School in Łódź. She adopted the novella Silesia, for her film “Ode to Joy,” a feature that won multiple awards at film festivals in Gdynia, Koszalin and Huston. Member of European Film Academy.

FILMOGRAPHY
2021
Cudak 2014 The
Word (Promise) 2011-12 No
Secrets TV series 2010 Flying
Pigs 2006 Appetite for Love TV
series 2005 Ode to Joy – Silesia
(Ode to Joy – Silesia) 2000-11 The Parish (Rectory) TV series

2021, 90 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles

Direction/Directed
by ANNA KAZEJAK

Script/Script
MAREK KREUTZ

Cinematography/Photos
jakub STOLECKI

Art Director/Scenography
KATARZYNA
SOBAŃSKA, MARCEL SŁAWIŃSKI

Music/Music
JOANNA DUDA

Editing/Editing
MACIEJ PAWLIŃSKI

Sound/Sound
TOMASZ
KAMIŃSKI, DARIUSZ STANEK

Produced by/Production
TVP

Producer/Producent
KRYSTYNA ŚWIECA