THE AUTHORS

POLISH TITLE: AUTORKI

REPRESENTED BY KFF

Four Polish female prisoners are taken in a police convoy to the premiere of a play about their lives, which they wrote. On their way to the theater the Authors worry how the audience will take their tantalizing and often shocking stories. Whether the viewers will understand the message from prison and the Authors’ wisdom, which results from many years of isolation. While the director and actors worry if the Authors will endorse their sometimes controversial interpretation of the play. What will be the result of that artistic clash? How will the writing change the prisoners’ lives?

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland, France
RUNNING TIME:
70'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Janusz Mrozowski
SCRIPT:
Janusz Mrozowski
DOP:
Janusz Mrozowski
EDITOR:
Olek Krzanowski
PRODUCTION:
Filmogène Janusz Mrozowski
COPRODUCTION:
Jakobyart Karolina Bieńko

Janusz Mrozowski »

Born in Poland in 1948, he has been living in Paris since 1970. In 1978 he made his first short film, 'Rzecz'. He set up the Filmogene studio in 1987. He made his feature debut 'Lucy's Revenge' in Burkina Faso in 1998; the film won him an M-Net All Africa Film Award (the African equivalent of an Oscar) in Pretoria. 'Bad Boys Cell 425', the only Polish-language film screened at Cannes 2009, was his documentary debut. His next project, 'Bad Girls Cell 77', had its world premiere at the 26th Warsaw Film Festival. 'Bad Boy. High Security Cell' is his latest film.
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