SYNOPSIS
A young man is facing death of his mother. At the same time he is harbouring a desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.
Awards
Ecumenical Jury Prize, Jury Prize | Cannes IFF, France, 1980
Special Jury Prize | Gdynia FF, Poland, 1980
Award for the male role | Film Debut Festival "Youth and Film", Poland, 1980
Best Screenplay, | Cartagena IFF, Colombia, 1981
Special Award | Panama IFF, Panama, 1981
CAST & CREW
Krzysztof Zanussi
Director
Script
Krzysztof Zanussi
Director of Photography
Sławomir Idziak, Andrzej Galiński
Production designer
Tadeusz Wybult
Music by
Wojciech Kilar
Sound
Wiesława Dęmbińska
Edit
Urszula Śliwińska
Cast
Tom Alter, Krystyna Bigelmajer, Kazimierz Borowiec, Tadeusz Bradecki, Leszek Cichy, Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska, Lucjan Dytrych
Production company
Studio Filmowe TOR
Krzysztof Zanussi
Film director, producer and scriptwriter. Studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at Jagiellonian University, graduated Lodz Film School, in 1967. He is also a theater director; he has staged around 50 productions (including operas) in Milan, Palermo, Bonn, Cracow, Bremen, Basel, Syracuse, Kiev, Novosibirsk and Rome – to mention some major ones. Krzysztof Zanussi has been awarded many prestigious prizes and distinctions. He has authored numerous books, also concerning filmmaking. Krzysztof Zanussi is a member of the Pontifical Commission for Culture at the Vatican, the European Film Academy Board, the Polish Academy of Science, the PEN-Club, the Polish Writers Association. He is an ex-president of the European Federation of Audiovisual Producers (FERA) and the Eurovision Association. He has honorary doctorates of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography VGIK (Moscow), the National University of Drama and Film I. L. Caragiale (Bucharest), the European Humanities University (Minsk), the Bulgarian University (Sophia), the University of Film and Television (St. Petersburg), the Catholic University of Lublin, the Opole University, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest), the University of Lodz, and is a recipient of the Luka Brajnovic Award (Navarre). Krzysztof Zanussi gives lectures at numerous universities, including Columbia, Yale, Cambridge, Rice University (Houston), Moscow, Barcelona, and master classes all around the world.
Filmography
The Structure of Crystal (1969), Family Life (1970), Behind The Wall (1971), Illumination (1972), The Quarterly Statement (1974), Camouflage (1976), The Spiral (1978), Ways in the Night (1979), The Constant Factor (1980), The Contract (1980), The Imperative (1982), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), The Paradigm (1985), Wherever You Are... (1988), The Silent Touch (1992), At Full Gallop (1995), Our God's Brother (1997), Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000), The Supplement (2002), Persona Non Grata (2005), Black Sun (2007), With a Warm Heart (2008), Revisited (2009), Foreign Body (2014).
