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Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
106 mn, 2018, Poland
Ula, a young girl from a small town in Poland is kidnapped and taken to a brothel in Germany. Luckily she manages to escape and return home. However, the welcome she receives is far from warm, as the girl is ostracised by the local, conservative community.
about the director
Magdalena Łazarkiewicz is a film and theatre director born in 1954, in Warsaw, Poland. In 1976, she graduated from Cultural Anthropology at the University of Wrocław. In 1982, she received a diploma from the University of Silesia’sFaculty of Radio and Television. Initially, she worked on documentary films. She worked as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda on the set of The Maids of Wilko and shot her feature debut under the supervision of Krzysztof Kieślowski.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2014 – Karski (tv play), director, screenwriter
2014- Dis-appearence (l-m documentary) director, screenwriter
2012/2013 – The Deep End (TV series), director, screenwriter (9 episodes)
2011 – The Deep End (TV series), director, screenwriter (10 episodes)
2010 – The Dance Marathon, director, screenwriter
2007 – The Crew (TV series), director (episodes 8-13), co-director (episodes 8-12 and 13)
2005 – Who’s Right? (TV series) (10 episodes)
2001/2002 – Dreams To Fulfil (TV series), director, screenwriter
1999 – To the End of the World, director, screenwriter
1997 – The Other Shore, director, screenwriter
1995 – The Trip (TV series), director, screenwriter
1992 – White Marriage, director, screenwriter
1991 – The Trip, director, screenwriter
1989- The Last School Bell, director, screenwriter
1985 – At A Touch, director, screenwriter
1979 – The Girls of Wilko, assistant director
credits
ORIGINAL TITLE: POWRÓT
DIRECTOR: Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
SCRIPTWRITER: Katarzyna Cesarz Terechowicz, Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
PRODUCTION COMPANY: ARGOMEDIA
PRODUCERS: Lambros Ziotas
CO-PRODUCERS: ODRA – FILM, THE CHIMNEY POT, D 35, DREAMSOUND, STUDIO FILMOWE WROCŁAW, PIRAMIDA FILM
CAST: Sandra Drzymalska, Agnieszka Warchulska, Stanisław Cywka, Katarzyna Herman
