PL | 2011 | b&w | 124 min
reż|dir Andrzej Barański  pro|pro Małgorzata Jurczak, Krzysztof Grudziński, Skorpion Arte sce|sc Andrzej Barański zdj|ph Jacek Petrycki dźwięk|sound Piotr Domaradzki, Michał Robaczewski  mon|ed Wanda Zeman ob|cast Rafał Zawierucha, Mateusz Zając, Michał Anioł, Aldona Jankowska, Jan Wojtyński dys|dis TVP SA

Andrzej Barański’s new film is based on  three autobiographical novels written by Zbigniew Masternak.  The film is about a young man, Zbyszek, who has to give up his dreams about sport career because of a serious contusion. Despite the fact that Zbyszek was both a talented  sportsman, and a poet, his efforts to achieve something it these fields proved futile. He didn’t finish his studies. After returning home Zbyszek feels helpless in a closed world of his village. As Andrzej Barański puts it: “The country in Masternak’s books is different from that we know from television, where it is seen through the eyes of globetrotters. Masternak’s country is the one seen through the eyes of the locals. Not everyone is happy with this image. Masternak divulges a very personal and painful attitude to the presented world and brotherhood. The rural community with condemnable manners is not only folklore, but a product of the social situation, confusion and emptiness, of the chaos that arose between the old and the new times.”

Zbigniew Masternak
A prose writer, a playwright and a screenwriter. He studied law, Polish philology and screenwriting. So far he has published three novels: Niech żyje wolność (2006), Chmurołap (2006), Scyzoryk (2008). They became a literary basis for the film Heritage, directed by Andrzej Barański. Before that, two independent film productions were based on his short stories: Wiązanka (2003) and Stacja Mirsk (2005). In 2010, Masternak released a short film Jezus na Prezydenta! He is a co-author of the book Kino Polskie 1989-2009. Historia Krytyczna (2010). His debut novel Niech Żyje Wolność has been translated into many languages, including exotic ones like Vietnamese. He comes from Piórków (the Świętokrzyskie Mountains).

DIRECTOR | Andrzej Barański 
Graduate of Director’s Department at the Film Academy (PWSFTviT) in Lodz. Director of feature and documentary films, also a playwright. In his films he takes up the theme of Polish province. He is the director of such films like: Kobieta z prowincji, Nad rzeką, której nie ma, Dwa księżyce, Parę osób, mały czas . All his films won multiple Polish and international film festival awards.