THE RITE OF PASSAGE
synopsis
1945. A family from Lviv moves to Cracow: a couple with two children - a 14-year-old Ludwik and five years younger Hania. Ludwik begins to learn in junior high, finds friends, gets acquainted with the surrounding. 1947. Marek, Ludwik’s friend from a higher class, a participant of the Warsaw Uprising, whose father is in the prison of The Security Department charged for cooperation with American intelligence, finds an underground organization to fight the communists. Based on true events.
international title: | The Rite of Passage |
original title: | Mała matura 1947 |
country: | Poland |
year: | 2010 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Janusz Majewski |
screenplay: | Janusz Majewski |
cast: | Adam Wróblewski, Agnieszka Michalska, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Marta Klubowicz, Wiktor Zborowski, Antoni Królikowski |
cinematography by: | Adam Bajerski |
film editing: | Milenia Fiedler |
art director: | Andrzej Haliński |
costumes designer: | Elżbieta Radke |
music: | Tomasz Stańko |
producer: | Wlodzimierz Niderhaus |
production: | WFDiF - Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Krakow Festival Office |
backing: | Polish Film Institute |
distributor: | Monolith Films |