06-05-2012

FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Supermarket

By FNE Staff

    {mosimage}GDYNIA: Maciej Zak creates a disturbing image of the impact that consumerism has on our life in his thriller Supermarket which appears in the main competition of the 37th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (www.fpff.pl).

    {mosimage}Supermarket is a dark, mysterious story about a young boy who is arrested for a crime in a big department store. Due to unclear reasons for his delinquency, he is sent off for observation in a psychiatric ward, where he tells a story about the events of the New Year's Eve when the crime happened. His tale becomes a horror story involving a married couple, whose life was forever changed by the events. Żak is a Polish film and television director, most popular for his drama The Bench (www.pleograf.pl) starring Jolanta Fraszyńska and Artur Żmijewski.

    {mosimage}"I wanted to create an intriguing story that would be formally attractive for the viewer. It all takes place in a very colorful world that is only seemingly safe. On the outside it is vivid, happy and fantastic. The ‘ideal' aura is also underlined by the Christmas shopping season. When we go deeper into it, turns out that there are a lot of different types of filth," Żak told FNE.

    {mosimage}The film is produced by the director's company St. Lazare Film Studio in co-production Cezar 10 S.A.(www.cezar10.pl), Chimney Pot (www.chimney.pl), Dreamsound (www.dreamsound.pl), Panavision (www.panavision.pl), and Lukas Film (www.lukasfilm.pl). The film received 1.9 million (EUR 454,000) production financing from the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl). The film will be released in Poland by the end of 2012.

    Crew:
    Director - Maciej Żak
    Screenwriter - Maciej Żak
    Director of photography - Jan Holubek
    Music - Mariusz Szypura
    Production designer - Ewa Skoczkowska
    Sound - Kacper Habisiak
    Editing - Jarosław Pietraszek
    Costume designer - Katarzyna Lewińska
    Make-up - Janusz Kaleja
    Production manager - Ewa Jastrzębska
    Production company - St. Lazare Film Studio - Maciej Żak
    Co-produced by - Cezar 10 S.A., Chimney Pot, Dreamsound, Panavision, Lukas Film
    Co-financed by - Polish Film Institute
    Executive producer - Maciej Żak

    Cast:
    Marian Dziędziel
    Mikołaj Roznerski
    Tomasz Sapryk
    Przemysław Bluszcz
    Iza Kuna

    Production information:
    ST. Lazare Studio Filmowe
    Spartańska 3
    02-637 Warsaw
    tel.: (22) 331-01-75