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VENICE 2007 Poland

Return to competition with Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway’s Nightwatching [+see also:
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– a co-production between the UK, Poland, Canada and the Netherlands – is one of the 21 titles in official competition at the upcoming Venice Film Festival.

Greenaway filmed the majority of the interior scenes of his new film in the Wroclaw Studios Production House. Nightwatching [+see also:
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depicts a tragic period in Rembrandt’s life (when the painter lost his wife and three children), while at the same time exploring how and why his most important work came to be and the mystery surrounding each of the characters of “The Night Watch”.

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Rembrandt is played by Martin Freeman, who stars alongside Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Natalie Press and Emily Holmes. Rounding off the cast are Polish actors Agata Buzek, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Andrzej Seweryn, Maciej Zakościelny, Rafał Mohr, Maciej Marczewski, Magda Smalara and Alicja Borkowska.

Nightwatching was backed by the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and produced by The Kasander Film Company, Bac Films, Aria Films Limited and by Poland’s Yeti Films and Gremi Film Production. Polish distributor Monolith Plus will release the title domestically on November 2.

Besides Greenaway’s film, Poland is also marking its presence with the short Ważki (“Dragonflies”) in the Corto Cortissimo competition. Ważki is directed and written by Justyna Nowak – a young graduate of the Łódź Film School known for her documentary Opór materii (“The Resistance of Matter”), which won several prizes (among others Audience Awards at Saint Petersburg and Barcelona).

The short selected recounts the ups and downs of a young girl, Tola, who lives in a seaside village and is madly in love with a boy. Cinematography was by Szymon Kluz and production by the Łódź Film School.

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(Translated from French)

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