Country: Poland
Year: 2013
Duration: 80'


Poland, 1962. Just before taking her vows, the novice Anna, a beautiful eighteen-year-old orphan who grew up in a convent, discovers she has an aunt who is still alive. Her name is Wanda, a former communist public prosecutor who is responsible for many death sentences passed against nuns and priests and who has always kept her Jewish origins a secret. While Anna discovers she, too, is Jewish and is actually called Ida, Wanda must come to terms with decisions she made during the war and which still haunt her.

Biography

film director

Pawel Pawlikowski

Paweł Pawlikowski (Warsaw, Poland) grew up in Poland, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, where he moved in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy in London and Oxford, and debuted as a director of documentaries for the BBC. After making the TV movie Twockers (1999), which he wrote and directed with Ian Duncan, he moved on to feature films with Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004) and La Femme du Vème (2011), which received numerous recognitions, including two Bafta Awards and the FIPRESCI Award at the London International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Extraordinary Adventures (doc., tv, 1988), Vaclav Havel (doc., tv, 1989), Moscow Pietushki (doc., tv, 1990), Dostoevsky’s Travels (doc., tv, 1991), Serbian Epics (doc., tv, 1992), The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin (doc., tv, 1993), Tripping with Zhirinovsky (doc., tv, 1995), Lucifer Over Lancashire (doc., tv, 1997), The Stringer (tv, 1997), Twockers (tv, 1999), Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (id., 2004), La Femme di Vème (2011), Ida (2013).

Declaration

film director

“Ida is a film about identity, family, faith, guilt, socialism and music. I wanted to make a film about history, which wouldn’t feel like a historical film; a film which is moral, but has no lessons to offer; […] a story closer to poetry than plot. Most of all, I wanted to steer clear of the usual rhetoric of the Polish cinema. The Poland in Ida is shown by an ‘outsider’ with no axe to grind, filtered through personal memory and emotion, the sounds and images of childhood…”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Paweł Pawlikowski
SCENEGGIATURA
Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
FOTOGRAFIA
Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
MONTAGGIO
Jarosław Kamińsk
SCENOGRAFIA
Katarzyna Sobańska, Marcel Sławiński
COSTUMI
Aleksandra Staszko
MUSICA
Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
SUONO
Claus Lynge
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Agata Kulesza (Wanda), Agata Trzebuchowska (Anna), Dawid Ogrodnik (Lis), Joanna Kulig (cantante/singer)
PRODUTTORI
Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska
PRODUZIONE
Opus Film, Phoenix Film
COPRODUTTORE
Christian Falkenberg Husum
COPRODUZIONE
Canal+ Poland, Phoenix Film Poland
DISTRIBUZIONE ITALIANA
Parthénos Distribuzione
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