Ida
reż|dir Paweł Pawlikowski | PL, DK | 2013 | 80 min
prod|pro Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska scen|wr Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz zdj|ph Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski muz|mus Kristian Eidnes Andersen mon|ed Jarosław Kamiński ob|cast Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Joanna Kulig, Adam Szyszkowski, Jerzy Trela dys|dis Solopan
The film is set in Communist Poland in 1962. Anna has grown up in a convent. She knows virtually nothing about her origins or the outside world. Just before taking her vows, she is asked to make contact with an aunt she did not even know existed. Anna, who is very innocent, tries to get close to her aunt, Wanda. The latter turns out to be a haughty woman with a strong personality, bull-dozing her way through life, alone. Once close to the Communist government, she used to be a “respectable” judge. Having fallen from grace, she now busies herself with local and neighbourhood disputes.
Wanda decides to take Anna along with her to visit places that will lift the veil on her story, a story that is very closely entwined with that of Poland, Europe and the Second World War. Together, they discover their shared past and the fate of their family. It turns out that Anna is not called really Anna, but Ida and that she is not Roman Catholic, but Jewish. This quest will take a very heavy toll on Anna, leaving the viewer to wonder whether it wouldn’t have been better to leave the past behind.
2014 European Parliament LUX Film Prize – the LUX Film Prize
2014 Eagles – Best Film, Best Actress (Agata Klesza), Best Director, Best Editing
2013 Gdynia Film Festival – Golden Lions, Best Actress (Agata Kulesza), Best Cinematography, Best Art Design (Katarzyna Sobańska, Marcel Sławiński), the Journalists’ Award
2013 Camerimage IFF – Golden Frog
2013 Warsaw FF – Grand Prix, the Ecumenical Jury Award
2011 Kobieta z piątej dzielnicy | Femme du Vème, La | Woman in the Fifth, The
2004 Lato miłości | My Summer of Love
2000 Ostatnie wyjście | Last Resort
1998 Korespondent | Stringer, The
1991 Dostoevsky’s travels
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