I, Tomek

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Movie
German title I, Tomek
Original title Świnki
Country of production Poland / Germany
original language Polish / German
Publishing year 2009
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Robert Gliński
script Joanna Didik
Robert Gliński
music Cornelius Renz
camera Petro Aleksovsky
cut Krzysztof Szpetmanski
occupation
Robert Gliński (left) and Daniel Furmaniak at the presentation of the film in Halle (Saale) .

Ich, Tomek is a cinematic drama from 2009. It is a German-Polish joint effort about child prostitution on the border between the two countries. The film was released in German cinemas on June 10, 2010; a start date for the Polish cinemas has not yet been set (June 2010).

action

Tomek ( Filip Garbacz ) is a 15-year-old student who lives on the Polish side of the German-Polish border. Its social environment is characterized by poverty and a lack of vision for the future. His dream and greatest hobby is astronomy , he also attends the church's youth classes a little irregularly. He hopes the school will buy a telescope so he can take part in a competition. His teacher, Mr Weber ( Rolf Hoppe ), can only convince the school management to buy a cheaper telescope. He meets Marta ( Anna Kulej ) in a disco where he thinks he can get documents for his sister's school . He falls in love with her and Marta puts him under pressure with her wishes for veneers , later for expensive sports shoes and other expensive things. Tomek tries to fulfill wishes with various odd jobs, but can only earn little with it. So he asks his friend Ciemny ( Daniel Furmaniak ), who works as a prostitute , to borrow money for him. But this refuses. Finally he asks Borys, a pimp . He offers Tomek a job and after the first refusal, Tomek finally accepts. This is how his life as a stick boy begins. Marta finally leaves him for the older Arek and Tomek is brutally raped and injured by a customer, Max. As revenge against his pimp, Tomek reports this anonymously to the police and then takes over the pimping business himself. Ciemny wants to work for him and Tomek places him with Max. Ciemny is critically injured by Max, Tomek sees him again in the hospital. As he looks out the window of the hospital room, he sees Marta getting into a pimp's car. Tomek takes a moped and follows them. Finally he manages to stop Max's car and tries to pull Marta, who is struggling, out of the car. The rushing police finally arrest Tomek and Max. During interrogation, Tomek is told by a police officer that Ciemny died in hospital. In an unobserved moment at the police station, Max tries to buy Tomek's silence. Tomek then hits Max on the head with his motorcycle helmet many times. The last frame of the film shows Tomek playing apathetically with his cell phone.

background

The German cooperation partners were found by producer Witold Iwaszkiewicz in autumn 2005 on the Connecting Cottbus co-production market .

The main characters are amateur actors , the script is by Joanna Didik, a student of Gliński who grew up on the German-Polish border. The Polish title Świnki means piggy . This is how the Polish border slang describes the children who prostitute themselves in order to be able to afford material luxury.

Awards

criticism

“Unfortunately, what is achievable in life depends only in theory on individual skills, personal commitment and will. Even in European democracies, in which classless societies are a reality on paper and all people should have the same opportunities, the extent of what is achievable still largely depends on the social class into which one was born. I, Tomek, sketches unspectacularly but uncompromisingly the story of a young person who, ignored by his caregivers, goes through a career from prostitute to criminal. A cinema worth seeing with a strong deprifactor. "

- MovieMaze.de

“Director Robert Glinski staged a strong piece of contemporary cinema consistently with tough realism and great credibility. The impressive milieu drawing of a crumbling city on the border, the social neglect of the people in unemployment and hopelessness create a great atmospheric density. "

- Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden

References

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Website of the lender, press release (PDF; 671 kB), accessed on June 9, 2010
  2. ↑ Website of the Polish Film Festival Gdynia, 34th Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pl.fpff.pl
  3. ^ MovieMaze.de: Film review by Ich, Tomek
  4. ^ Jury statement of the Wiesbaden film evaluation office