Produced by TVP1, "Declaration of Immortality" is a portrait of Piotr "Mad" Korczak - a legend among Polish climbers, who initiated the whole range of various techniques of "conquering" the walls, and was the first to begin to consider climbing as a sport. Now Marcin Koszalka - a film director and one of Piotr's former followers - asks him inevitable questions about the impact of age: How does he deal with a passage of time? How does he perceive youth and growing old? How he expects his end will look like? Piotr "Mad" Korczak's insights on the existential nature of physical activity and at the same time on a nature of filmmaking form a pedestal over which spreads a magnificent and breathtaking picture of human ability to climb over the highest tops and to conquer the most difficult mountains. The film has been also recently distinguished at the Tampere Short Film Festival - one of the major international events presenting the short film.
"The Storm Cloud Odyssey" by Agnieszka Sadurska is a new animation TV series, produced by Studio Miniatur Filmowych and TVP1. Two dwarfs: Oświrek and Pikulik wander across Europe in search for ingredients for the magic mixture that is the only mean to save their friends - Skierka and Żagiewka - from a spell of a bad Bazyliszek, the dragon. They travel with a good witch Babujaga and meet a legendary creatures from a traditional fairy tales: dwarfs, elves, fairies, water nymphs, and gnomes.
47th edition of the Hugo TV Awards commenced with the Gala Ceremony hosted by Jay Levine of CBS and veteran Chicago journalist Mary Ann Childers.
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