Polish Monthly Film Series – April 2 at 3:30pm

Posted on 21-03-2017 , by: Art Gmurowski , in , 0 Comments

We  hope you can join us for the April screening of Jan Jakub Kolski’s thriller from 2012, To Kill a Beaver / Zabić bobra, as always with English subtitles – details follow.

 

WHAT: To Kill a Beaver / Zabić bobra, 2012 – thriller, 1hr 38 min – English subtitles.

WHEN: Sunday, April 2 at 3:30 pm

WHERE: Austin Public Library, 5500 Manchaca Rd, Austin, TX 78745, Tel: 512-974-8700

COST: FREE

CONTACT: joanna.guttlehr@gmail.com

Director:  Jan Jakub Kolski
Screenwriters: Jan Jakub Kolski
Director of photography:  Michał Pakulski
Music: Dariusz Górniok

Cast:  Eryk Lubos, Agnieszka Pawelkiewicz, Alexandra Michael , and others.

Trailer (subtitles) : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25c1ij_zwiastun-filmu-zabic-bobra-to-kill-a-beaver-trailer_shortfilms

Synopsis
A man returns home after a long time. The house is in a bad shape, ruined with graffiti on walls, but it doesn’t stop him from staying in. The man has an aim that requires complex preparations. The house has however already a new inhabitants that start to influence the man’s performance and to mingle with silhouettes from the character’s recent past, spent at the Central Asia border. Are the war prolonged tension and the man’s shattered emotionality possible to overcome, so that he may really re-locate in a peaceful surroundings of his home-village?

Reviews:
http://www.film-intel.com/2013/04/biff-2013-to-kill-beaver-cinema-review.html
http://www.the-totality.com/2013/04/biff-film-review-to-kill-beaver-zabic.html

Awards
• Camerimage 2012 – Golden Frog for best Polish film to Jan Jakub Kolski (director) and Michal Pakulski (cinematographer)
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2012 – best actor for Eryk Lubos

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