SYNOPSIS
Three people meet atop a skyscraper. They have the same intention – to commit suicide due to a major financial crisis. The conflict quickly escalates when they discover that they all represent a different conviction about the afterlife. The only way to find out who’s right is to take The Big Leap.
Awards
Award for the Best Film Editing | Krakow FF, Poland, 2013
CAST & CREW
Kristoffer Rus
Director
Producer(s)
Kristoffer Rus
Script
Renata Czarnkowska-Listoś, Kaśka Krośny, Ewa Borgunska, Maciej Strzembosz
Director of Photography
Kristoffer Rus
Production designer
Agata Uchman, Szymon Gaszczynski
Music by
Kristian “Polarman” Eliasson
Sound
Tomasz Wieczorek
Edit
Bartosz Pietras
Cast
Tilly Scott Pedersen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Arkadiusz Jakubik
Production company(ies)
Prasa i Film, East of West Cinema AB
Kristoffer Rus
Rus graduated from Kulturama film school in Stockholm and Wajda School in Warsaw. He has directed festival winning short films such as The Apple Tree (Audience Award, Gothenbourg FF; Winner, Palm Springs FF) and Street Feeling (Palm Springs FF, San Sebastian IFF). He has even fought with Ingmar Bergman’s demons while directing Scenes from a Marriage for the theater stage. Currently Rus is working on the adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel Masakra Profana by Jarosław Stawirej.
Filmography
Red on White (2000, short), Smiling Faces (2001, short), The Last Round (2002, short), The Apple Three (2003, short), Street Feeling (2009, short), The big Leap (2013, short).
