Stockholm Film Festival

In this breathtakingly beautiful rendering of the poem »Świteź« by Adam Mickiewicz, there are many references to the gold-and-red iconic paintings common to the Byzantine Empire of the Middle Ages. Oil painting was a technique actually used in the making of the film. »The Lost Town of Świteź« however, comes across as far more surreal than any Byzantine art. Not only a glimmer of Hieronymus Bosch can be traced in these complex images of damnation and salvation.

Premiere Status

Scandinavian Premiere

Orig. title

Switez

Producer

Kamil Polak, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Teresa Izdebska, Zbigniew Zmudzki, Irina Bogdanovich

Script

Kamil Polak

Music

Irina Bogdanovich

 

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