The Man with the Magic Box is set in Warsaw in 2030, following Adam whose memory has been wiped-out by the secret service. He gets a job as a janitor and falls in love with Goria, a girl from a higher social class or “zone”. During his work he finds an old radio from the 50s and discovers that it allows him to travel back in time.
Bodo Kox, who will direct the film and wrote the script, received a Special Mention for Best Screenplay from Central and Eastern Europe at ScriptTeast in 2015.
The film is produced by Izabela Igel and Roman Jarosz through Alter Ego Pictures in coproduction with Mike Downey through UK’s Film & Music Entertainment and Alessandro Riccardi and Gianluca Varriale through Italy's Vargo Film. The planned budget is 1,240,164 EUR / 5.3 m PLN of which 467,986 EUR / 2 m PLN comes from the Polish Film Institute.
The premiere is set for autumn 2017.
Production Information:
Alter Ego Pictures
ul. Chełmska 21 lok. 422
00-724 Warsaw, Poland
Phone/Fax: +48 22 851 11 15
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Credits:
Director: Bodo Kox
Screenwriter: Bodo Kox
DoP: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Set Designer: Wojciech Żogała
Costume Designer: Katarzyna Adamczyk
