{mosimage}Natalia and Kuba are two teenage
parents struggling with their relationship and new responsibilities.
While the girl is focused on her new baby and questions the need for a
partner, Kuba finds that it is his duty to take care of Natalia and his
son. Their weak attempt to live together is disrupted by Martyna, a
friend who is working at an advertising agency and introduces them to a
new world, offering something more then baby food and diapers.
Tosłaniec is a young generation Polish filmmaker best known for her debut film Mall Girls, a drama about girls offering sex for shopping with a cast of young amateur actresses. For Baby Blues
the director did a
nationwide casting search organized by television stationsMTV Polska (www.mtv.pl) and Viva Polska ( www.viva-tv.pl). From a group of over 6,000 candidates, the crew had chose
seventeen-year-old Magdalena Berus to play the lead and teenage actors Klaudia Bułka, Nikodem Rozbicki and Michał
Trzeciakwski, as well as experience Polish performers Danuta Stenka,
Jann Frycz, Magdalena Boczarska, Renata Dancewicz and Mateusz
Kościukiewicz.
The shoot took place in May and June 2011 in
Warsaw. Baby Blues is produced by Zentropa International Poland (www.zentropa.dk ) with a total budget of 6.2 million PLN (EUR 1.5 million). The distributor of the film Kino Świat (www.kinoswiat.pl) told FNE that script for the film was presented and well
received during the IFF in Rome in 2010 as part of the "New Cinema
Network" script section. The film also earned high marks from the
Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl)
experts and received a grant of 3.5 million PLN.
The film is currently in postproduction, and the national premiere of
the picture is planned for 2012.
Crew:
Director - Katarzyna Rosłaniec
Screenwriter - Katarzyna Rosłaniec
Production - Zentropa International Poland
Co-financing - Polish Film Institute
Distributor - Kino Świat
Cast:Magdalena Berus, Klaudia Bułka, Nikodem Rozbicki, Michał Trzeciakwski,
Danuta Stenka, Jann Frycz, Magdalena Boczarska, Renata Dancewicz, Mateusz Kościukiewicz
Production contact:
ZENTROPA INTERNATIONAL POLAND
Narbutta 25 a, room 211
02-536 Warsaw
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www.zentropa.dk
