Sweet Rush Poland
2008, 85min.
Prod.: Michał Kwieciński, Script: Andrzej Wajda, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Dir.: Andrzej Wajda, Dir. of Phot.: Paweł Edelman, Compos.: Paweł Mykietyn, Prod. Design: Magdalena Dipont, Sound: Jacek Hamela, Edit.: Milenia Fiedler.
Cast: Krystyna Janda, Paweł Szajda, Jadwiga Jankowska, Julia Pietrucha, Jan Englert.
A middle-aged woman Marta, the wife of a small town doctor, doesn’t know about her terminal illness. One day Marta meets a much younger man Bogus and is fascinated by his youth and simplicity. Their innocent “dates” on the banks of the river, marked by mutual fascination, are put to an end by a sudden and cruel twist of fate: it is Boguś who dies first, drowning, entangled in the roots of the sweet rush he was carrying for Marta. But this is just the first layer of this multi-dimensional tale: Sweet Rush is also a film about making a film and Andrzej Wajda is intertwining the story with real-life monologues of Krystyna Janda dealing with the premature death of her husband, the acclaimed cinematographer Edward Kłosiński. Sweet Rush is a subtle and touching story of impossible love and, at the same time, the director’s personal account of things eternal: love coming too late and death coming always too early.
Awards
Golden Bear (Berlin IFF, 2009)
Production Company
Akson Studio Sp. z o.o. 22/30 Stępińska Str., 00- 739 Warsaw, Poland Tel.: +48 22 840 68 34 Fax: +48 22 841 77 82 E-mail: akson@mediafilm.pl www.filmtatarak.pl
| Wajda, Andrzej Andrzej Wajda (born 1926, Suwalki, Poland) Film and theatre director. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kracow and the Film School in Łցdź. Senator of the Republic of Poland from 1989 to 1991. Received numerous awards and prizes, including: BAFTA Fellowship 1982; Onassis Prize, Greece 1982; Oficierde laLռgion d'Honneur(1982) France; Cesar Award, France (1983); Pirandello Artistic Award, Italy (1986); Kyoto Prize, Japan (1987); “Felix” European Film Awards- Lifetime Achievement Award (1990); Order of Rising Sun, Japan (1995); Premium Imperiale, Japan (1997); Golden Lion Life Achievement Award, Venice, (1998); OSCAR Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); Commandeur de la Lռgion d`honneur France (2001); Golden Bear Life Achievement Award, IFF Berlin (2006).
Filmography
The Bad Boy (1950), The Pottery at Ilza (1951), While You’re Asleep (1952), A Generation (1955), I Walk in the Sun (1955), Kanal (1957), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Lotna (1959), Innocent Sorcerers (1960), Siberian Lady Macbeth (1961), Samson (1961), Love at Twenty (1962), Ashes (1965), Everything For Sale (1968), Roly Poly (1968, TV), Gates to Paradise (1968), Hunting Flies (1969), The Birch Wood (1970), Landscape After the Battle (1970), Pilate and Others (1972), The Wedding (1973), The Promised Land (1975), The Shadow Line (1976), Dead Class (1977, TV), Man of Marble (1977), Rough Treatment (1978), Einlandung zur Besichtigung von Innenraumen (1978), Pogoda domu niecaj bedzie z Toba (1979), The Maids of Wilko (1979), As Years Go by, As Days Go by (1980, TV series), The Orchestra Conductor (1980), Man of Iron (1981), Danton (1983), Love in Germany (1983), A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986), The French as seen by... (1988, TV mini-series), The Possessed (1988), Korczak (1990), Schuld und Suhne (1992, TV), The Ring with a Crowned-Eagle (1992), Nastasja (1994), The Holy Week (1995), Miss Nobody (1996), Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania (1999), The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos (2000, TV), June night (2001, TV), The Lesson of Polish Cinema (2002), The Revenge (2002), Solidqarnisc, Solidarnosc (segment Man of Hope, 2005), Katyń (2007), Sweet Rush (2008).
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