17-05-2010

Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition spotlight: The Christening

By Katarzyna Grynienko

    Marcin Wrona's second film, The Christening, earns a spot in the Gdynia Polish Film Festival's main competition.

    {mosimage}The Christening (Chrzest) is the story of a criminal who betrays his accomplices and moves to Warsaw, where he starts a new business and a family. He invites his brother to the baptism of his child in order to persuade him to fill in as father and husband when revenge comes.

    The shooting took place in summer 2009, and the production wrapped with an explosion scene filmed in the military unit in Kazuń.

    The Polish company ODEON Film Studio (www.odeon.com.pl) is debuting as a producer with this title. The total budget of the film is PLN 2 million (€510,000), half of it financed by the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl). The Christening is co-produced by Wrona, No Problem - Krzysztof Krawczyk (www.noproblem.com.pl) and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Directing (www.wajdaschool.pl).

    Production contact:

    ODEON Rybarczyk Productions

    {mosimage}Rakowiecka 4

    02-519 Warsaw

    tel.: (+4822) 646 69 00

    fax.: (+4822) 646 78 91

    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    www.odeon.com.pl

     

    Production Company - Studio Filmowe Odeon

    Producer - Leszek Rybarczyk, Marek Rudnicki

    Co-production - Marcin Wrona, No Problem - Krzysztof Krawczyk, Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy

    Film współfinansowany przez Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

    Production management - Magdalena Jóźwiak, Marek Rudnicki

    Crew:

    Director ­- Marcin Wrona

    Scriptwriters - Grzegorz Jankowski, Grażyna Trela, Dariusz Glazer

    Cinematographer - Paweł Flis

    Editing - Piotr Kmiecik

    Set design - Dorota Łacek-Gorczyca

    {mosimage}Costumes - Katarzyna Śródka

    Nake-up - Beata Matuszczak

    Cast:

    Tomasz Schuchardt - Janek

    Wojciech Zieliński - Michał

    Natalia Rybicka - Magda (żona Michała)

    Adam Woronowicz - Gruby (szef mafii)

    Michał Koterski - Łysy (prawa ręka Grubego)

    Paweł Tomaszewski ­- Wyżelowany (członek mafii)

    Krzysztof Czeczot - Dres (członek mafii)

    Robert Jurczyga - Czarny Podkoszulek (członek mafii)

    Andrzej Franczyk - ojciec Michała

    Iwonna Bielska - matka Magdy

    Sławomir Rokita - ojciec Magdy

    Mikołaj Kałucki­ - Adaś

    Klaudia El Dursi - żona Grubego

    Ola Radwańska - Agata, matka chrzestna