Directed by:
Stanisław MuchaCinematography:
Krzysztof PtakComposer:
Max RichterCast:
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Rafal Fudalej, Kamilla Baar, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Dominika Ostalowska, Jerzy Trela, Jan Frycz, Beata Fudalej, Michał Sieczkowski (more)Plots(1)
The 20-year-old Franciszek witnesses the theft of a rare painting from a Warsaw church and records the event with an amateur camera. When he finds out that the burgler is art expert and gallery owner Benedykt Weber, he promises to keep quiet if the painting is returned to where it belongs. Weber however already has a customer, and the obsessively idealistic Franciszek is under all kinds of pressure from those close to him... This story about various kinds of blackmail ties into the work of Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski: after making the Three Colours trilogy (1993-94) Kieślowski and his favoured screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz planned another triptych, bound to the Christian collocation of faith, hope, and love, or heaven, hell, and purgatory. After the director's untimely death in 1996, Piesiewicz's screenplays resulted in Tom Tykwer's Heaven (2002), L'Enfer (2005) by Danis Tanović, and finally Stanisław Mucha's Hope. "In my country it's hard for people to maintain hope. But hope is something that cannot be excluded from life. When I look around myself, it strikes me that if hope did not exist then I would have to quickly invent it," says the director, whose feature film debut legitimately ties in to Kieślowski's legacy. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Poland
Best movies:
The Pianist (2002)
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Korczak (1990)
Rafal Fudalej
Poland
Best movies:
Hope (2007)
The Offsiders (2008)
Suicide Room (2011)
Kamilla Baar
Poland
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
The Promised Land (1974)
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Dominika Ostalowska
Poland
Best movies:
Historie miłosne (1997)
Wojaczek (1999)
Hope (2007)
Jerzy Trela
Poland
Best movies:
A Lonely Woman (1981)
Znachor (1981)
Man of Iron (1981)
Jan Frycz
Poland
Best movies:
25 Years of Innocence (2020)
How I Became a Gangster. True Story (2019)
Big Shar (1982)
Beata Fudalej
Poland
Best movies:
Saviour Square (2006)
Hope (2007)
Holy Week (1995)
Michał Sieczkowski
Poland
Best movies:
Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
Spring of Life (2000)
The Supplement (2002)
Wojciech Pszoniak
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
The Promised Land (1974)
Black Thursday (2011)
Julia Pietrucha
Poland
Best movies:
Hope (2007)
Jutro idziemy do kina (2007) (TV movie)
Testosteron (2007)
Krzysztof Kiersznowski
Poland
Best movies:
Man of Marble (1977)
Bez znieczulenia (1978)
Hit the Bank (1981)
Marzena Trybala
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Blind Chance (1981)
Three Colours: White (1994)
Maria Klejdysz
Poland
Best movies:
Znachor (1981)
Faustyna (1994)
Historie miłosne (1997)
Aleksander Bednarz
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Europa Europa (1990)
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Wszystko będzie dobrze (2007)
Michal Breitenwald
Poland
Best movies:
Leave No Traces (2021)
Joanna (2010)
Hope (2007)
Stanisław Radwan
Poland
Zbigniew Domagalski
Best movies:
Zabawa, zabawa (2018)
Hope (2007)
Irena Strzalkowska
Best movies:
Hope (2007)
Irina Lastovyak
Best movies:
Hope (2007)