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DRAWN FROM MEMORY

POLISH TITLE: PORTRET Z PAMIĘCI

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Marek is a fledgling filmmaker who, together with his mother, is taking care of his grandmother suffering from Alzheimer. She is convinced that in the past she used to be a great actress. As her condition worsens, the grandmother loses both memory and recognition turning more and more agressive and domineering. Marek decides to turn his camera on her. When the two are acting out the most prominent scenes from the history of world cinema, a very special bond develops between them. Shot as a home video, the film is a poignant study of family and generation relations. Even though the grandmother used to unconsciously act heartless toward her dear ones, in the end her portrait, shot by Marek, will help the family to retain warm memories of her.


FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
24'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Marcin Bortkiewicz
SCRIPT:
Marcin Bortkiewicz
DOP:
Malte Rosenfeld
EDITOR:
Piotr Mendelowski
CAST:
Irena Jun, Małgorzta Zajączkowska, Marek Kantyka
MUSIC:
Marek Czerniewicz
PRODUCTION:
Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , PS Film

Marcin Bortkiewicz »

Born in 1976 in Słupsk. This graduate of the University of Gdańsk and th Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing since 1991 has been associated with Rondo Theatre in Słupsk as an actor, scriptwriter and director. In 2006 he began cooperation with producer Darek Dikti and Biuro Pomysłów, a film production company. His short documentary forms include Cisza (2003), The Rules of the Game (2004), Zrobię film dla Ciebie – Gdynia (2007) and Row, row, row (2008).
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