Little tricks
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Little tricks |
| Original title | Sztuczki |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Jakimowski |
| script | Andrzej Jakimowski |
| production | Andrzej Jakimowski |
| music | Tomasz Gąssowski |
| camera | Adam Bajerski |
| cut | Cezary Grzesiuk |
| occupation | |
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Little Tricks is a 2007 Polish feature film.
action
The film takes place during the summer holidays in a small town in Lower Silesia , where Stefek, an imaginative 7-year-old boy, lives with his older sister Elka and his mother. The father left the family years ago, so Stefek has no memory of him. At the train station, however, he sees a man with a briefcase and a cell phone waiting for the train to Wroclaw every day , and from a crumpled photo he thinks he recognizes his father. So he tries with various "little tricks" to contact the man and get him to return to his family. But his sister Elka doesn't want to know anything more about it. She struck her father out of her life, works as a dishwasher in a restaurant and is learning Italian in order to be employed by an Italian company in town. Her brother's ventures prevent this, however, as it means that she is always late for interviews. Finally she gives up. But Stefek also seems to fail with his plan. With the help of Elka's friend Jerzy, he is able to keep the man in town for a whole day, which shows that he is actually Stefek's father - but when he seems to leave town in the evening without having made contact with his family , Stefek falls asleep from sheer exhaustion in an empty freight car that is shunted back and forth throughout the night. When Stefek finally wakes up, the car is rolling through the train station where his father has spent the night on a bench, and the two of them finally meet.
background
The filming of the film took place from July 15 to August 30, 2006 in Wałbrzych (German: Waldenburg) in the district of Dzietrzychów (German: Dittersbach). The film premiered during the 2007 Venice International Film Festival . The theatrical release in Poland was on October 26, 2007. From July 23, 2009 the film was shown in German cinemas.
Reviews
“Little Tricks is a film that was staged with a lot of humor, verve and unbelievable ingenuity, that tells a great little story, that lets neighboring Poland appear in a whole new light, and that brings back the innocent moments of childhood. Magical, humorous and unique in a fabulous way! "
“Jakimowski's film tells what makes a perfect summer that looks different from what TUI and Langnese advertisements suggest: narrowed eyes in the glistening sun, swimming in the stream, endlessly bright evenings, shuffling in flip-flops, riding a motorcycle without a helmet, a shy love and things do that one would have thought more carefully on a cool autumn day. A separate film is constantly running, a review of your own childhood, when the days were endless. "
"The powerful, unspoilt play of the amateur actors paired with the memories of the director's childhood are the strengths of this film, which shows a lot of sadness and is about loneliness, but never loses its winking humor."
Awards
- 2007: Label Europa Cinemas (Venice Film Festival)
- 2007: Laterna Magica (Venice Film Festival)
- 2007: Golden Lion ( Polish Film Festival Gdynia )
- 2007: Award for the best camera (Polish Film Festival Gdynia)
- 2007: Actor Award for Damian Ul (Tokyo International Film Festival)
- 2007: Special Jury Prize (São Paulo International Film Festival)
- 2008: Polish Film Award in the categories of Best Director and Best Supporting Actor , as well as Audience Award
Web links
- Little tricks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/1217638
- ↑ In Search of the Lost Father
- ↑ Matthias Wulff: Movie "Small Tricks": A perfect summer without Tui and Langnese. In: welt.de . July 21, 2009, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Film review on www.br-online.de ( Memento from October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )