Tatarak
Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus![](/media/filmstills/2009/wettbewerb/20096932_5_RWD_1380.jpg)
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Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Julia Pietrucha, Pawel Szajda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Krystyna Janda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Pawel Szajda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Wajda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Pawel Szajda, Krystyna Janda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Krystyna Janda
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus by Andrzej Wajda
POL 2008, Competition
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Based on a short novel by one of Poland’s most acclaimed writers, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, the story could have ended at this point. But Wajda goes further by confronting fiction with reality, intertwining the fictitious story with heart-rending monologues from his main actor Krystyna Janda about the death of her real-life husband, the acclaimed cinematographer Edward Kłosiński, to whom the film is dedicated.
Wajda’s film follows a two-pronged approach. On the one hand we see the actor reconstructing the last months of her husband's life in a simple but extremely touching way and, on the other, we follow the struggles of her fictitious character, who cannot get over the death of the man with whom she was so happy. Both of them have to cope with painful experiences – the actor with the death of her husband, and her character with the additional loss of her two sons who died in the Warsaw Uprising during the Second World War. Thus, the two women, Krystyna and Marta, eventually merge to become one and the same person. Agata Harrison
World sales
TVP Telewizja Polska S.A.
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Pawel Szajda, Andrzej Wajda
Tatarak-Regisseur Andrzej Wajda gefolgt von Schauspieler Pawel Szajda.
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda looks cheerfully at the jounalists.
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Pawel Szajda
Actorr Pawel Szajda at the press conference.
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Jan Englert
He also plays a leading role in Tatarak: Jan Englert.
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Pawel Szajda
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Jan Englert
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Andrzej Wajda
Tatarak · Competition · Feb 13, 2009
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Slawomir Józwik (Co-Producer, Polish TV), Pawel Szajda (Actor), Jan Englert (Actor), Andrzej Wajda (Director), Michal Kwiecinski (Producer)
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 13, 2009
Slawomir Józwik (Co-Producer, Polish TV), Pawel Szajda (Actor), Jan Englert (Actor), Andrzej Wajda (Director), Michal Kwiecinski (Producer)
Tatarak | Sweet Rush | Der Kalmus
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 13, 2009