Dr Charakter presents

Poland2010animated8'Retrospektywa Piotra Dumały (2021)

Full of absurd humour, the film is a pastiche of popular television shows from the past such as ‘Tele-Echo’ hosted by Irena Dziedzic who conducted about 12 500 interviews with interesting personalities in this first talk show in the history of Polish television. The eponymous protagonist, a host of a popular programme, is played by (obviously, on the soundtrack) Jerzy Płażewski, PhD, a renowned cinema critic and historian who invites such interesting guests as a man in a lozenge, a mouse that swallowed a snake or an inventor of the razor powered with compressed air.

directed by
Piotr Dumała

Piotr Dumała – animated and feature film director and graphic artist. He was born in 1956. His films, including A Gentle Creature (1985), Freedom of the Leg (1988), Franz Kafka (1991) and Crime and Punishment (2000) won over 70 awards at international festivals (among others, in Kraków, Zagreb, Annecy). In 2009 he made his feature debut The Forest. Dumała teaches at the Film School in Łódź, Konstfack College in Eksjo and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

cinematography
Robert Rząca
script
Piotr Dumała
animated by
Piotr Dumała
cast
Jerzy Płażewski, Jan Kobuszewski, Michał Tarkowski, Elżbieta Futera-Jędrzejewska
music
Wojciech Lemański
production
Marek Serafiński (Serafiński Studio)
Photo
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