Daas (2011)
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| Original title | Daas |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 120 minutes |
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| Director | Adrian Panek |
| script | Adrian Panek |
| production | Lambros Ziotas |
| music | Issidoros Papadakis |
| camera | Arkadiusz Tomiak |
| cut | Witold Chomiński |
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Daas is a Polish costume and period film from 2011 that explores the influence of Jakob Joseph Frank and Frankism during the 18th century. He deals with the eternal struggle between religion and secular authority, idealism and double play, as well as eroticism and trust. The film title refers to the Kabbalistic Daas , which was the mystical goal of all Frankists.
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Vienna in 1776: The imperial court advisor Henryk Klein, who immigrated from Silesia , receives a worrying supplement from the Polish nobleman Jakub Goliński in his office of the Austrian-Bohemian court chancellery : In 1759 a neophyte named Jakob Frank is said to have come from Turkey with the claim that he had come to Catholicism converts because Jesus was only the figure who paved the way for the true Messiah: Jakob Frank. With the authority of a Messiah, he ordered all Jews in Eastern Europe to convert to Catholicism as well. Goliński, born in Gliniany near Lwów , is ashamed to have been among his followers. Frank proclaimed himself to be "Master of life and death" and that those who believed in him would never die. The case would have been resolved in a tribunal before the Polish Chancellor and three bishops: the majority of Frankists pleaded guilty and was pardoned. Frank himself would have been banished for life by the Vatican to the Jasna Góra monastery (Częstochowa) so that he could never again harm people with heresy . He could have continued teaching a handful of Frankists who had followed him to that point and gained new followers through them. Unfortunately he was released there by Russian troops twelve years later and fled to Vienna. Goliński's wife would have stayed with Frank and practiced polygamy and polyandry . But his wife would have told him that Frank was planning to have him murdered as an example to other apostates. Every day, crowds of creditors come to Frank in Brno to offer their money and their services, which is an insult to the emperor and the church. In view of the importance of this matter, Goliński humbly turned to the court chancellery to be allowed to put an end to this fraud here in Vienna. That would also help Goliński to get back the money Jakob Frank had stolen from him many years ago.
While Goliński, as a traumatized ex-Frankist in divided Poland, somehow tries to bring about justice for himself and, due to his opaque entanglement in Frankism, cannot convince Hendel and the Duchess to support a factory with his rubber production technology, Henryk commissioned Klein in the Bohemian-Austrian branch Hofkanzlei immediately his assistant Schwartz with the verification of the information about Frank by the Warsaw authorities and the Vatican. He hears of his wife Marianna's stroke and paralysis and, of all people, finds out Jakob Frank from her doctor as the last chance of recovery.
Goliński's supplik suddenly disappeared in the archives of the Austro-Bohemian Court Chancellery. The superior imperial court advisor Mr. Grosse orders Klein to destroy all documents and evidence against Frank. Even the Count von Nogai advises his son-in-law Henryk not to investigate the whole matter further, because it is very delicate. A sophisticated conspiracy in the highest circles in Austria-Hungary seems to be underway. The Turkish symbol can be seen everywhere in Vienna: the red star with a crescent moon .
Klein now travels to the Frankist court in Brno, where he meets Jakob Frank for the first time. At the costume festival of Emperor Joseph II there was a scandal: Henryk Klein, committed to his oath to Joseph II and his conscience, appeared before His Imperial Majesty and warns him of a major conspiracy. But he will wake up angry and the fates of Goliński and Klein will inevitably interweave.
Locations
The shooting of the film took place in Wroclaw .
Movie review
“Well filmed by Arkadiusz Tomiak. Daas is a fascinating strip connected with religion and worldly power, eroticism and belief, idealism and meanness, greed for money and spiritual power. "
"The debutant Adrian Panek can be praised for his ambition and extraordinary competence."
Web links
- Daas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer for the film (Polish)