The Devil

The Devil appears in a small Polish town. How much is a human soul worth?

Synopsis

According to researches made throughout the 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events were possible…

DIABEL

Poland | 2022 | 19 min

DIRECTOR / SCREENPLAY: Jan Bujnowski

PRODUCTION: Agata Golanska – PWSFVIT

CAST: Pawlak, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Waldemar Czyszak, Danuta Borsuk

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kasper Lorek

EDITING: Olga Bejm, Stanislaw Frankowski

SCREENING: Thursday 24.11. / 17:15h / Zaal 3 & Saturday 26.11. / 13:45h / Zaal 6 / Dutch Premiere

Director’s bio

Jan Bujnowski was born in 1994 in Bialystok. Graduate of Film Direction at National Film School in Lodz. He also studied journalism and history of art at University of Warsaw.

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