The bailiff

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Movie
German title The bailiff
Original title Komornik
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 2005
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Feliks Falk
script Grzegorz Łoszewski
production Janusz Morgenstern
music Bartłomiej Gliniak
camera Bartosz Prokopowicz
cut Krzysztof Szpetmański
occupation

The Bailiff is a Polish feature film from 2005.

action

The film shows 48 hours in the life of the bailiff Lucjan Bohme, who is considered the most relentless and successful bailiff in the Wałbrzych area. In his work he knows no compromises and does not even shy away from confiscating the equipment of the heavily indebted city hospital that is essential for patients. So he makes enemies not only among the population, but also among colleagues with lower success rates and politics. Bohme is considered a clean man who, unlike his colleagues, is incorruptible. The entrepreneur Wiśniak offers him a large amount of bribes to refrain from seizing his machines. Lucjan only takes it on the pretense in order to cause even greater problems for Wiśniak later. Only the acquaintance of Gosia Bednarek leads to the change of his uncompromising behavior. They were once a couple as a student. Gosia came back to Wałbrzych after years of absence and happened to meet Lucjan again. When Lucjan wanted to seize the accordion from a family as the only valuable item of a poor family, he discovered that the accordion belonged to the seriously ill little daughter of Gosia. When another delinquent, who is also a popular soccer player in town, kills himself, these events plunge Lucjan into a crisis of meaning. The following night, Lucjan begins distributing the bribe received from Wiśniak to the poor in the city and tries to make amends for part of his guilt. When the money is distributed, however, he is confronted with the allegation of bribery and can no longer produce the money and all those who received money from him the night before deny this. Only Gosia sticks to him.

background

Feliks Falk in an interview about his film: In my film, I try to show that the system change in Poland did not automatically lead to social conflicts, poverty, injustice, human errors and weaknesses such as envy, ruthlessness and career aspirations at any cost of the past belong. My film shows a decomposed world in which people oppress others. A world in which there is no room for the weak.

Awards

The film was shown in the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2006 and was awarded the prize of the ecumenical jury. The jury's reasoning was as follows: ... for a precise portrait of the current political change in Poland, which also tells an ethically haunting story about the universal problem of corruption. For the high artistic quality of the representation of justice and human dignity.

In 2005 the film was awarded the main prize at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia . In 2006 the film also won the Polish Film Prize for best film of 2005. Polish film prizes also received Kinga Prize and Andrzej Chyra for their performances, as well as Feliks Falk for best director and Grzegorz Łoszewski for the script and Anna Wunderlich for best production design .

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