16-02-2016

PRODUCTION: Agnieszka Holland Finished Shooting Game Count

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    Agnieszka Holland Agnieszka Holland fot. Robert Pałka

    WARSAW: Agnieszka Holland has wrapped the third and final stage of the shoot for her crime thriller Game Count, a coproduction between Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden.

    The shoot took place in Kotlina Kłodzka and was completed on 7 February 2016. Holland shot the film in three stages, the first taking place June and July 2015, followed by a second stage in October and the third that launched in January 2016.

    The film is an adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s bestselling novel Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead under the title Game Count/Pokot. The script co-written by Holland and Tokarczuk follows a series of murders of hunters from a small community. An elderly villager Janina finds herself a prime suspect in the police investigation. Agnieszka Mandat plays the lead. The cast includes Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszał, Borys Szyc, Andrzej Grabowski, Tomasz Kot and Katarzyna Herman.


    The film is produced by TOR Film Production in coproduction with Heimatfilm GmbH (Germany), Chimney Group (Sweden)
    and Nutprodukce (Czech Republic). The budget is 3 m EUR with 3.5 m PLN of production financing from the Polish Film Institute. The film also received support from the MEDIA Program and the Polish-German Co-Development Fund.

    The premiere of the picture is planned for 2017. The distributor is Next Film.

    Production Information:

    Tor Film Production
    Ul. Pulawska 61
    02-595 Warsaw, Poland
    Tel/Fax: +48 22 845 53 03/+48 22 845 50 45
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    www.tor.com.pl

    Credits:
    Director: Agnieszka Holland
    Screenwriter: Agnieszka Holland, Olga Tokarczuk
    Cinematographer: Joanna Dylewska
    Set designer: Joanna Macha
    Costumes: Katarzyna Lewińska
    Music: Andrzej Lewandowski, Thomas Huhn

    Cast:

    Agnieszka Mandat
    Wiktor Zborowski
    Jakub Gierszał
    Borys Szyc
    Andrzej Grabowski
    Tomasz Kot
    Katarzyna Herman