ONE THOUSAND FORBIDDEN BUSHES

POLISH TITLE: TYSIĄC ZAKAZANYCH KRZAKÓW

REPRESENTED BY KFF

A comedy of errors: Bugi, a gitar player, mistook his girlfriend for a marihuana plant, a bad lieutenant
confused service with ‘Bald and Beautiful’, a TV series, and a nasty affair of a mediocre journalist with
a phone in competition presenter was washed away into the Indian Ocean by a wave of tsunami.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
38'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Piotr Kielar
SCRIPT:
Xawery Żuławski
DOP:
Xawery Żuławski, Rafał Okyne
EDITOR:
Leszek Molski
CAST:
Eryk Lubos, Joachim Lamża, Grzegorz Wojdon, Katarzyna Chlebny, Małgorzata Zawadzka, Piotr Nowak
MUSIC:
Piotr Zabrodzki, Jan Komar
PRODUCTION:
TVP Kultura, Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich - Studio Munka , Lifetime Productions

Piotr Kielar »

He was born on the 13th September 1968 inWarsaw. In 1993 he finished his studies at the State Academy of Drama in Warsaw at Department of Theatrology. He studied directing at the Polish National Film, TV and TheatreSchool in Łódź (1993-1998). Co-operated with the Academy of Movement in Warsaw and with Cultural Centre in Kazimierz. As a director he realized several documentaries, etudes and television theatre. “Dad from America” took part in important international film festivals winning a special award on MFFK in Cracow and STO – Studio award at the Media Festival “Man in Danger” in Łódź. The film “The Double Life of Miss Kierat” – awarded Grand Prix at the festival in Berlin has been selected as one of the best programs of the year for INPUT Conference, Forth Worth, USA1999. In 1998 he has founded his own film studio “Pancernik Film”.