The Prince and the Dybbuk
Poland, Germany2017documentary82'Laureaci festiwali (2018)
Life is like a film. It is fascinating, mysterious, full of understatement and turns of actions. Without a doubt, Michał Waszyński is one of the most interesting and intriguing figures in the world’s cinematography. A popular film director in the pre-war Poland, he was later forced to leave the country and became one of the most influential men in the world of cinema who stood behind the careers of many stars of the screen. The film is an extraordinary documentary journey into the biography of the man for whom film fiction was more beautiful than the truth.
- directed by
- Elwira Niewiera
Director and scriptwriter born in 1976. She is the author of well-known and award-winning documentaries made together with Piotr Rosołowski, such as The Domino Effect (awarded with the Golden Horn and the Golden Hobby Horse at the 54th Krakow Film Festival as well as the Golden Dove at the IFF DOK Leipzig) and The Prince and the Dybbuk (including the Golden Lion for the best documentary on cinema at the 74th Venice Film Festival and the Polish Film Award 2019 for the Best Documentary Film). In her artistic work, she focuses primarily on political, social and cultural transformations in Eastern Europe. She is the winner of the Young German Cinema Award 2020 and the prestigious American Chicken & Egg Award 2021.
Piotr Rosołowski
Director and cinematographer born in 1977. He graduated from the Radio and Television Faculty in Katowice and received a scholarship from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He is a co-author of the Oscar-nominated documentary Rabbit a la Berlin and a co-director of The Prince and the Dybbuk awarded at the 74th Venice Film Festival. He has worked on the cinematography of many award-winning documentaries and feature films, including the Oscar-nominated short film On the Line directed by Reto Caffi. He won the Young German Cinema Award in 2020, as well as the awards of the Society of Cinematographers, the PSC and the American Cinematographer Magazine Award for his cinematography for the documentary The Wall of Shadows directed by Eliza Kubarska.
- cinematography
- Piotr Rosołowski
- script
- Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski
- editing
- Andrzej Dąbrowski
- production
- Malgorzata Zacharko (Film Art Production), Matthias Miegel (Kundschafter Filmproduktion)
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