THE MIRACLE
POLISH TITLE: CUD
A talented animator, Ewa Borysewicz, enters the territory of live-action cinema to create a film experiment interpreting the story of Mary and Joseph in a perverse way. The life of a young man, who is a hedonist and sinner, is turned upside down when his wife becomes pregnant. The protagonist tries to escape, but it does not bring him any comfort. To the contrary, it complicates his life even more. He is not able to separate reality from drunken hallucinations coloured with biblical stories and folk songs. Or, maybe they are not fantasies? The script was based on the novel by Ignacy Karpowicz. The biblical message and language is enlaced in the poetics of absurd humour. An intriguing aesthetic form makes it possible to overcome the limitations of live-action cinema and unleash the artist’s creativity.
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2024
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Ewa Borysewicz
- SCRIPT:
- Ewa Borysewicz
- DOP:
- Marcin Lesisz
- EDITOR:
- Aleksandra Rosset - Żak
- CAST:
- Bartłomiej KotschedoffJoanna Połeć, Barbara Jonak, Paulina Kondrak, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Dorota Kiełkowicz, Bogusław Suszka
- MUSIC:
- Marzena Majcher
- SOUND:
- Michał Fojcik
- PRODUCTION:
- Piotr Szczepanowicz, Jakub Karwowski, Letko
Ewa Borysewicz »
in 2009 she graduated from Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. Her graduation animated film Who Would Have Thought? has been acclaimed both by audience and the critics and received awards at important festivals in Poland and abroad. In the early 2012 she took part in an animation‑artist‑in‑residence programme in Tokyo. She also created commissioned spots promoting good manners among football fans during UEFA Euro 2012. She works and lives in Krakow.- 40. Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy, 2024, Poland, 2024 (screening)
- 64. Krakow Film Festival, 2024, Poland, 2024 (competition)