THE ROOM
POLISH TITLE: POKÓJ
TV reporters looking for sensation find a haunted room in a house located in the countryside. The only thing they do not know is who haunted whom and whether there was any haunting at all. As the story unravels, the residents’ dark secrets come to light...
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- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 28'
- YEAR:
- 2011
- DIRECTING:
- Maciej Bochniak, Sławomir Shuty
- SCRIPT:
- Sławomir Shuty
- DOP:
- Bartosz Cichoński
- EDITOR:
- Maciej Bochniak
- CAST:
- Juliusz Chrząstowski, Iwona Budner, Krzysztof Zarzycki, Piotr Głowacki, Błażej Wójcik, Teresa Pawłowicz
- MUSIC:
- Dr Pytor
- PRODUCTION:
- Impression2Films
Maciej Bochniak »
Maciek Bochniak (born 26.05.84, Cracow, Poland). Film director & writer.Graduated as scriptwriter of National Film School in Lodz, Poland. His newest fiction film Disco Polo reached audience over 860.000 in cinemas in Poland within 6 weeks. For this film Maciek received Janusz Morgenstern award for the most promising debut. Maciek created the acclaimed full-length documentary One Billion Happy People (produced by HBO), based on the Chinese adventures of the Polish “disco/folk” band Bayer Full. He made his debut with the short film I Love You So Much (2009) and the documentary Reception (2011) as part of the first documentary program at the Munk Studio. He is the co-author of the feature film The Room which apart from many awards and recognitions, received the award for Best Independent Film at the 37th Gdynia Film Festival, and was chosen by Dziennik Polski newspaper as one of the top 10 films.Sławomir Shuty »
Born in 1973. Writer, director, photographer and performer. He writes books and is an author of the firstPolish hypertext novel Blok. He develops and manages performances. His films include: W drodze (2003), Luna (2005), Panoptikon (2009) and Dom (2009). He won the Passport Award granted by ‘Polityka’, a Polish weekly, for his novel The Heap (2005).
AT FESTIVALS:
- 28th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (screening)