A godless Polish capitalist has his blood pump in the wrong place in "And a Warm Heart," a labored comedy-drama in which a cardiac transplant is a medical and symbolic necessity.
Krzysztof Zanussi
Serce na dloni (And a Warm Heart) (2008)
Number of disks: 1
Format: DVD-9
Region: 2 (PAL). European or multi-system DVD player is required to see this DVD.
Studio: Best Film CO
Total time: 02:00
Format: 16:9
Audio: DD 5.1
Language version: Polish
Subtitles: none
A godless Polish capitalist has his blood pump in the wrong place in "And a Warm Heart," a labored comedy-drama in which a cardiac transplant is a medical and symbolic necessity. (Varity)
Credits:
A Monolith Films production, in association with Tor Film Prod. Produced by Wlodzimierz Niderhaus. Executive producer, Jewgienij Pugaczow. Co-producers, Krzysztof Zanussi, Mariusz Lukomski, Janusz Wachala. Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. Screenplay, K. Zanussi, Andrzej Mularczyk. Camera (color), Adam Bajerski; editor, Wanda Zeman; music, Wojciech Kilar; production designer, Joanna Macha; costume designer, Ewa Helman-Szczerbic; sound (Dolby Digital), Maria Chilarecka; associate producer (Ukraine), Oleg Kochan; assistant directors, Zbigniew Gruz, Magdalena Szwarcbart, casting, Magdalena Szwarcbart, Alla Samojlenko. Running time: 100 min.
Cast:
Bogdan Stupka ... Konstanty
Szymon Bobrowski ... Angelo
Marek Kudelko ... Stefan
Krzysztof Kowalewski
Marta Zmuda ... Malgorzata
Borys Szyc ... Lawyer
Maciej Zakoscielny ... Assistant
Tomasz Sapryk ... Doctor
Nina Andrycz ... Konstanty's mother
Agnieszka Dygant ... Psychiatrist
Stanislawa Celinska ... Ex-wife
Dorota Rabczewska ... Singer
Magdalena Warzecha ... Assistant
Pawel Okraska ... Driver
Olga Sarzynska ... Malgorzata's friend
About the director:
Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish producer and film director. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.
Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) in Kraków. He is the director of the Polish Film Studio TOR and has received several prizes and awards, including the David di Donatello Prize of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, the Cavalier's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order, and the Cavalier de L'Ordre des Sciences et Lettres.
He graduated the Lodz film school with Death of a Provincial (1966), which won an award at the Venice Film Festival. He emerged as a director/screenwriter in the late '60s and early '70s, primarily working for Polish television, until the '80s, when his association with the Solidarity movement forced him into exile in West German and Swiss productions. One of his films, The Catamount Killing (1974), was shot in English, and his work since the mid-'80s has seen wider international financing and distribution.
Krzysztof Zanussi has written On editing an amateur film (1968), Discourse on an amateur film (1978) and the memoirs, memoirs Time to Die (1999). He appeared as himself in Camera Buff (1979), a film about an amateur film maker, directed by his friend Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Zanussi's work is defined by its devotion to ideas at the expense of emotionalism, and intellectualism without overt passions, which did not prevent his fall from grace with the government during Solidarity's temporary defeat in the mid-'80s.
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