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A PORTER FROM MEWA HOTEL

POLISH TITLE: PORTIER Z HOTELU MEWA

People’s Republic of Poland. Włodzimierz Zawada, a porter at one of the workers‘ hotels is an exemplary citizen whose undisturbed daily existence passes without note. An unexpected finding that he comes across on a hotel’s corridor turns his life upside down, putting him in a Kafkian situation. Soon, it turnes out that Zawada is used as a scapegoat by the local authorities trying to express, on every opportunity, their devotion to the party.  When this elaborate plan is about to be successfully completed things suddenly take on a new direction. „A porter from Mewa Hotel“ is a bitter-sweet, grotesque crime story that depicts the ugly methods of communist regime, revealing each of its ambiguities and obscurities.

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GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRYI:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
29'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Michał Janów
SCRIPT:
Michał Janów
DOP:
Weronika Bilska
MUSIC:
Przemysław Frankowski
PRODUCER:
Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

Michał Janów »

born in 1978 in Zywiec, Poland. Graduated from Directing Department at  Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and Television Facutly of University of Silesia in Katowice. He is a student at documentary course at Wajda School. He is the author of documentaries "Word" (2006), "Backward" (2006), fiction shorts "Guard" (2007), "Tamar" (2011) i  "Day after tomorrow" (2008) and animated "Peoples' shadows" (2010). "A Porter from Mewa Hotel " is his graduation film.
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