"THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK" AT IDFA FORUM
This year, the film project "The Prince and the Dybbuk" by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski will participate in IDFA Forum, accompanying the IDFA festival. The event is held from 23 to 25 November.
The co-production film market IDFA Forum is dedicated to documentary film projects. During three days of IDFA Forum, over 50 teams of directors and producers will have an opportunity to show their projects to the invited decision-makers from the documentary film industry. During the event, there are also lectures, meetings with professionals and potential buyers of the projects.
"The Prince and the Dybbuk" is the new project by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski. Their previous production, "Domino Effect," won a number of awards at international festivals, among others, the Golden Horn and the Golden Hobby Horse at Krakow Film Festival and the Golden Dove at the DOK.Leipzig festival.
"The Prince and the Dybbuk" is a documentary film about Mosze Waks. Born in a poor family in a small Jewish shtetl in Ukraine, he dies in Madrid as the prince Michael Waszyński, Hollywood film producer and Polish aristocrat in exile. Along the way, in his colourful life, he assists Friedrich Murnau with the making of the film "Nosferatu," infuriates the Third Reich's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, by his film "The Dybbuk," and produces the most expensive motion picture in the history of cinema, "The Fall of the Roman Empire." These who had the opportunity to come across him, remembered him as an aristocrat, a lover of luxury, a liar, the wandering Jew and open homosexual and the husband of an Italian countess in one person.
People responsible for the film's production are: Małgorzata Zacharko (Film Art Production), Matthias Miegel (Kundschafter Filmproduktion GmbH Berlin), Ann Carolin Renninger (zero one film GmbH, Berlin) and Alessandro Carroli (EiE film).