TRICKS
synopsis
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that the chain of events he sets in motion will help him get closer to his father who abandoned his mother. His sister Elka, 17, helps him learn how to “bribe” fate with small sacrifices. Tricks and coincidences eventually bring the father to the mother’s doorstep but things go wrong. In despair Stefek tries his good luck with the most risky of his tricks.
international title: | Tricks |
original title: | Sztuczki |
country: | Poland |
sales agent: | m-appeal |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Andrzej Jakimowski |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | PL 26/10/2007, NL 17/04/2008, NO 12/09/2008, FR 22/10/2008, BE 29/10/2008, CZ 13/11/2008, ES 24/04/2009, DE 23/07/2009, AT 04/09/2009, UK 04/09/2009 |
screenplay: | Andrzej Jakimowski |
cast: | Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak, Rafał Guźniczak, Tomasz Sapryk |
cinematography by: | Adam Bajerski |
film editing: | Cezary Grzesiuk |
art director: | Ewa Jakimowska |
costumes designer: | Aleksandra Staszko |
music: | Tomasz Gassowski |
producer: | Andrzej Jakimowski |
production: | Zjednoczenie Artystów i Rzemieślników Sp. z o.o., WFDiF - Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, Telewizja Polska (TVP) - Agencja Filmowa, Canal+ Cyfrowy, Opus Film |
distributor: | Kino Świat, Nederlands Film Museum Distributie (NL), KMBO (FR), Benelux Film Distributors (BE), Sherlock Films (ES), Kool (Filmagentinnen) (DE), Filmladen (AT), New Wave Films (UK) |