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Imago

Proxima Competition 2023 / Imago / Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic 2023

Imago

Synopsis

It is 1987 and the wind of change will soon also be sweeping across communist Poland. Ela is a young woman seeking refuge from the insipidness of a life hallowed by the regime, mixing with artists on the alternative scene, singing in clubs with her post-punk band, and attending alcohol-fuelled parties… In her second film director Olga Chajdas summons up vital energy to invigorate the music scene of the Baltic Tricity and, aided by the charismatic actress and co-scripter Lena Góra, she offers the viewer a vivid portrait of a multilayered character – an inspirational artist forever enveloped in cigarette smoke, a woman struggling with her inner demons, yet also a fragile creature yearning for motherly love.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

113 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Olga Chajdas / Screenplay Lena Góra, Olga Chajdas / Dir. of Photography Tomasz Naumiuk / Music Smolik / Sound Jan Schermer, Ivan Horák / Editor Pavel Hrdlička / Art Director Anna Anosowicz / Producer Izabela Wójcik, Violetta Kamińska, Dariusz Jabłoński / Production Apple Film Production / Coproduction Topkapi Films, Moloko Film / Cast Lena Góra, Bogusława Schubert, Wojciech Brzeziński, Mateusz Więcławek, Wacław Warchoł, Łukasz Orbitowski, Justyna Wasilewska / Contact Apple Film Production, Marijana Harder

About the director

Olga Chajdas

Olga Chajdas (1983, Poznań). Selected filmography: Nina (2018), Erotica 2022 (2020, co-dir.), Imago (2023).

Contacts

Apple Film Production
Zelazna 59, 00-848, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 228 518 440
E-mail: [email protected]

Publicity contact

Marijana Harder
Phone: +491 777 942 871
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Olga Chajdas
Film Director

Lena Góra
Actress

Violetta Kaminska
Producer

Bogusława Schubert-Massoc
Actress

Izabela Wojcik
Producer

Miloš Lochman
Producer

Dariusz Jablonski
Producer

Grzegorz Olkowski
Producer

Karel Chvojka
Producer

Andrzej Smolik
Music Composer

Jan Schermer
Sound Designer

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