THREE FOR THE TAKING
POLISH TITLE: TRÓJKA DO WZIĘCIA
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Carefree life of a 16-year-old Inga is broken off with the news of her mother’s fatal illness. From one day to the next Inga is left alone with two younger siblings. She has to run away from the welfare workers who want to place her in an emergency shelter for children. Inga wander with the kids from her boyfriend’s to her aunt’s. Like it or not, she becomes a mother for the kids. For the sacrifices she receives unusual recompense…
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 39'
- YEAR:
- 2006
- DIRECTING:
- Bartek Konopka
- SCRIPT:
- Bartek Konopka, Piotr Borkowski
- DOP:
- Piotr Rosołowski
- EDITOR:
- Rafał Listopad
- CAST:
- Klaudia Barcik, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Krzysztof Czeczot, Michał Włodarczyk, Marek Kasprzyk, Violetta Arlak, Łukasz Mechanicki, Andrzej Konopka
- MUSIC:
- Wojciech Waglewski
- PRODUCTION:
- Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio)
Bartek Konopka »
Oscar nominated for the “Rabbit a la Berlin” (2009) documentary that was shown at more than 70 festivals, received a dozen prizes and had been sold to 40 countries. His feature fiction debut “Fear of Falling” (2011) premiered at Montreal IFF (awarded at Mannheim, Mumbai, Lecce, Vincennes, Gdynia). Released in cinemas in France, Spain, Iran and Poland. Author of many documentaries and couple of fictions that gained an international acclaim. Bartek is a graduate of film studies at the Jagiellonian University Krakow and Film Directing at the Silesian University in Katowice. Member of European Film Academy and the Board of Polish Film Institute.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Festival de Cannes - Short Film Corner, France, 2007 (screening)
- Fresh Film Fest, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 2007 (screening)
- Molodist, Kiyev, Ukraine, 2008 (screening)
- Polish Film Festival – Journey to Poland, Bristol, UK, 2009 (screening)
- KINOTEKA - 9th Polish Film Festival, London, UK, 2011 (screening)
- The New Generation of Polish Filmmakers, USA, 2012 (screening)
- Slamdance Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, 2007 (competition)
- The Premiers Plans Film Festival, Paris, France, 2007 (competition)
- SlamDance On The Road, Łaźnia Nowa, 2007 (competition)
- Message to Man International Film Festival, Petersburg, Russia, 2007 (competition)
- Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland, 2007 (competition)
- Aye Aye International Film Festival, Nancy, France, 2007 (competition)
- Brest European Short Film Festival, 2007 (competition)
- Amsterdam Shorts!, The Netherlands, 2008 (competition)
- 2nd Seoul International Family Film Festival, Korea, 2008 (competition)