NOTHING TO BE SCARED OF

POLISH TITLE: A CZEGO TU SIĘ BAĆ?

The inhabitants of one of the Masuria lake district villages talk about the rituals, customs and beliefs connected with death. In an ordinary way, just like about any other matter and, at the same time, with wit and humour. They have already come to terms with death while we in the cities have no time to think about it. Paradoxically, this results in an even greater fear of it coming. ‘Nothing to be scared of’, say the heroes of this moving, but also amusing film.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
39'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Małgorzata Szumowska
SCRIPT:
Małgorzata Szumowska
DOP:
Jacek Drosio
EDITOR:
Jacek Drosio
MUSIC:
Adam Walicki, Marcin Rychter
PRODUCTION:
SHOT- -SZUMOWSKI

Małgorzata Szumowska »

Born in 1973 in Krakow. She is a graduate of the Film Directing Department at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź (1998). She has made successful documentaries including Silence (1997), Seven Lessons of Love (1999), Ślub w domu samotności (2000), Dokument... (2001), Mój tata Maciek (2005) and feature films including A Happy Man (2000), The Stranger (2004), Ojciec (2005) – a short story in the film Solidarity, Solidarity... She has been a winner of numerous awards at festivals in, among others, Angers, Bologna, Tampere, Wiesbaden, Tarnów and Krakow.
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