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Warsaw 44 movie picked for Gdynia Film Festival

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Nick Hodge 21.07.2014 11:59
An eagerly awaited film about the 1944 Warsaw Rising has been selected for the main competition of the 39th Gdynia Film Festival.

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Warsaw 44. Image: Akson Studio

Jan Komasa's Warsaw 44 (Miasto 44) is one of thirteen films to have qualified for the competition, with directors battling for the Golden Lions award in what is considered to be the key annual showcase of Polish cinema.

Seven of the thirteen movies will be premiered in Gdynia this September, while Komasa's epic will have its world premiere on 30 July at the National Stadium in Warsaw, as part of the 70th anniversary tributes marking the outbreak of the doomed insurgency against the Nazi Germans.

Besides Warsaw 44, the main competition will also include Wladyslaw Pasikowski's Jack Strong, a thriller set in the Cold War about the late Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, who defected to the US.

Festival regular Wojciech Smarzowski, who is currently working on a film about the Volhynia massacres, returns with his latest movie The Mighty Angel, which explores the plight of a Krakow alcoholic.

Newcomer Krzysztof Skonieczny also made the final thirteen with his revenge thriller Hardcore Disco, while veteran Jerzy Stuhr will be premiering Citizen, a comedy about a populist politician who knows how to change his spots.

The full competition line-up as well as info about other sections of the festival, can be found on the event's official website.

The Gdynia Film Festival is organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the Association of Polish Filmmakers (SFP), in partnership with local authorities.

The festival runs from 15 September to 20 September. (nh)

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