05/04/2005 - The 2003 feature Motór by Wieslaw Paluch, winner of several prizes was finally released last Friday ... This drama-comedy depicts the daily life of a group of provincial youths with no real plan for the future who spend their time drinking beer,worshipping the WSK as a goddess

The 2003 feature Motór by Wieslaw Paluch which won several prizes at independant film festivals was finally released last Friday on the Polish screens. This drama-comedy, starring Andrzej Szeremeta, Sebastian Nietupski, and Ofelia Karolina Cybula, deals with an item which was once a legend in Poland, the motorbike 125 WSK. The film is set in 1983 and depicts the daily life of a group of provincial youths with no real plan for the future who spend their time drinking beer from the village "budka z piwem" ("beer stores"). They decide to create a cult, worshipping the WSK as a goddess. The film’s music itself is cult : Pink Floyd, Saxon, Steppenwolf, Kate Bush, The Waterboys, Judast Priest...

In order to produce this self-derisive but very realistic representation of daily life in the province in the 80’s, the three Polish producers Wieslaw Paluch, Piotr Rejmer, and Krzysztof Semeniuk decided to create an independant production company, Motór-Film Sp. z o.o. Motór is distributed by the KinOffala programme, which depends on the Grupa Inicjatyw Filmowych (GIF), a society of directors which provides a network of 26 screens in 22 Polish cities to support the distribution of independant Polish films. Amongst the other European movies released on Friday 1st, there is Reconstruction by Christoffer Boe (Denmark), Renart le renard by Thierry Schiel (Luxemburg), and Genesis by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou (France).

(Translated from French)