Komornik / The Debt Collector
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October 20th @ 3PM
Director: Feliks Falk, 2005
100 minutes
The award-winning THE DEBT COLLECTOR is one of the most
energetic films to come out of Poland in recent years. As recession grips
a Polish town, only Lucek Bohme (Andrzej Chyra), the best government
collector in the business, has true job security. Confident in the
supremacy of the law (and his own personal greatness), Lucek can swagger
into a bankrupt hospital and repossess a patient's ventilator without
giving it a second thought. But when a series of tragedies and a reunion
with a lost love move the collector to give instead of take, Lucek finds
that morality isn't as easy to interpret as the law.
Source:
Chicago International Film Festival
A panel discussion with Polish director Feliks Falk and University of Texas
Faculty will be held immediately following the screening of Komornik.
Jasminum / Jasmine
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October 21st @ 3PM
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski, 2006
115 minutes
JASMINUM is a Latin word for Jasmine. The plot is set in a monastery in our times. Apart from Prior Kleofas and Brother Sanitas, three other monks who reside there have their own particular body scents. The prior is dead bent on finding portents of the soon-to-come fulfillment of Prophet Barnabas' prophecy while Brethren Plum, Cherry and Birdcherry issue body odors, each one according to his name. One day a young art restorer Natasha arrives to the monastery, commissioned for a conservation of the sacred paintings. She brings in her five year old daughter Gienia whose charm and inquiring mind wreak havoc in the monks' monotonous life. And there starts a mysterious and magical story filled with sensuous scents and love?
Co Slonko Widzialo / What the Sun Has Seen
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October 27th @ 3PM
director: Michal Rosa, 2006
107 minutes
Follows the stories of the three protagonists Jozef, Marta and Sebastian. The linking element is their urgent need for an impossible sum of money, each for a different reason. Jozef, somewhere in his fifties, has to find the money so he can pay for his wife's new teeth. Marta dreams of leaving her country and finding a new life abroad and Sebastian is a young survivor who has adapted to the harsh life of the free-market economy. The three stories intertwine as the protagonists reveal their dreams and everyday struggles.
Swiadek Koronny / The Crown Witness
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October 28th @ 3PM
director:Jacek Filipiak & Jaroslaw Sypniewski, 2007
97 minutes
The power of love in the world of crime. A gangster who for a beloved woman decides to serve as crown witness in a trial against his previous mafia fellows and an investigative journalist carrying a dark secret and solely seeking for justice meet for an interview...