PL, SE | 2011 | colour | 96 min
reż|dir Lech J. Majewski pro|pro Lech J. Majewski, Freddy Olsson, Angelus Silesius sce|sc Lech J. Majewski, Michael Francis Gibson zdj|ph Lech J. Majewski, Adam Sikora muz|mus Lech J. Majewski, Józef Skrzek mon|ed Eliot Ems, Norbert Rudzik ob|cast Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin, Marian Makula dys|dis ITI Cinema

In 2005 writer and art critic Michael Gibson saw in a Parisian cinema a film Angelus directed by Lech Majewski. Fascinated with picturesque imagination of the director Gibson gave him his book Mill and Cross. The book was an analysis of a famous Peter Bruegl’s picture the Calvary. Majewski, who started his artistic career with painting and poetry, appreciated Gibson’s depth of view, and a natural consequence was on offer to create a common scenario. The director took up the challenge that resulted in three year work on the film demanding an enormous patience and even bigger imagination, as well as using new technologies of 3D animation. The newest Lech Majewski’s film will provide experience to everyone, who is searching for something unforgettable in cinema. The Breugel’s masterpiece has been revived, with all its beauty, harshness and cruelty. Thanks to new technologies the film shows the fate of 12 characters from the picture. Peter Breugel is played by Rutger Hauer. Michael York is banker Jonghelinck, and Maria is Charlotte Rampling. 

2011 Sundance Film Festival – World premiere
2011 Rotterdam Film Festival – European premiere

DIRECTOR | Lech Majewski (1953)
Artist, filmmaker, poet, and stage director; born in Katowice, Poland; graduated from the Łódź Film School in 1977. Since 1981 he lives in USA. Majewski is a producer and writer of the film Basquiat directed by Julian Schnabel. His film Wojaczek received over twenty prizes, among them a prestigious Don Quixote Award in 2006. The Museum of Modern Art in New York honored Mr. Majewski with a major retrospective of his work, presenting the artist’s films and video features.