09.
12.
2024.
Department
Acting
Acting
Cinema loves debuts, and this is a double debut: both acting and directing. The graduation film of the acting students, THE CLOWNS, directed by Gabriela Muskała, in on at cinemas from 13, December.
The distributor of the film is Mówi Serwis.
THE CLOWNS is the seventh full-length diploma film of the Lodz Film School Acting Department students. In front of the camera – final year acting students who graduated in 2021.
Behind the camera – actress-director, Gabriela Muskała, as befits a film about actors and debuts.
Our acting students’ diploma film premiered at the 39th Warsaw Film Festival. Since then, the film has appeared at many national festivals: Camera Action in Łódź, Cinema on the Border in Cieszyn, Koszalin Film Debut Festival Młodzi i Film, Tofifest in Toruń.
Actress Magdalena Dwurzyńska was awarded the Mastercard Rising Star at the OFF Camera Festival in Krakow, and the film won the Audience Award at the Sopot Film Festival.
The film’s ceremonial premiere (closed) is scheduled for 9, December.
This Friday, 13, December, Gabriela Muskała's debut film will hit cinemas across Poland!
We invite you to the screenings, the list of cinemas is available on the distributor's website: www.dystrybucjamowiserwis.pl/blazny-rez-gabriela-muskala
Film synopsis:
Łukasz and Julka, as well as Olo and Alicja, two friendly couples, are just finishing their acting studies. They dream of great roles and a quick path to the top. When they learn that their graduation film will be directed by the famous director Gajda, they decide to take advantage of the opportunity. The director has to choose two people for the main roles from the entire class. A classic "rat race" begins among the students. During improvisation of scenes for the film based on the themes of jealousy, lies, manipulation and betrayal, Łukasz is paired with Olo, and Julka with Alicja. The young actors slowly begin to perceive their partners as a threat. Tensions grow, revealing ambitions, complexes and unsettled matters. The line between fiction and reality blurs, and the graduation film becomes a scene of envy and desperate rivalry. Will friendship survive? Or will fame prove more important?
THE CLOWNS
Credits:
SCREENPLAY & DIRECTION Gabriela Muskała
CINEMATOGRAPHY Piotr Żurawski
EDITING Jakub Darewski, Kosma Kowalczyk
PRODUCER Agata Golańska
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ewa Hoffmann
PRODUCTION MANAGER Aleksandra Dziura
SET DESIGNER Zofia Mazurczak-Prus
COSTUMES Kinga Kubiak
MAKE-UP Matylda Morska
CHOREOGRAPHY Daria Szymańska
COLOUR CORRECTION Piotr Putko
SOUND DIRECTION Michał Kosterkiewicz, Michał Kosterkiewicz Jr MUSIC Zbigniew Zamachowski
ARTISTIC SUPERVISION Mariusz Grzegorzek
PRODUCTION Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi
CO-PRODUCER EC1 Łódź – the City of Culture in Łódź, Indeks Film Studio
POSTER Kreacja Pro Andrzej Pągowski, Magdalena Błażków
CAST: Sebastian Dela, Jan Łuć, Justyna Litwic, Magdalena Dwurzyńska, Szymon Kukla, Jakub Dąbrowski, Karolina Kostoń, Klaudia Janas, Daniel Stanko, Oliwer Witek, Bogumiła Trzeciakowska, Klaudia Koścista, Jakub Sierenberg, Mikołaj Trynda
and Oskar Hamerski as the director GAJDA
with special guest appearances of Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert and Robert Więckiewicz
THE CLOWNS is the seventh full-length diploma film of the Lodz Film School Acting Department students. In front of the camera – final year acting students who graduated in 2021.
Behind the camera – actress-director, Gabriela Muskała, as befits a film about actors and debuts.
Our acting students’ diploma film premiered at the 39th Warsaw Film Festival. Since then, the film has appeared at many national festivals: Camera Action in Łódź, Cinema on the Border in Cieszyn, Koszalin Film Debut Festival Młodzi i Film, Tofifest in Toruń.
Actress Magdalena Dwurzyńska was awarded the Mastercard Rising Star at the OFF Camera Festival in Krakow, and the film won the Audience Award at the Sopot Film Festival.
The film’s ceremonial premiere (closed) is scheduled for 9, December.
This Friday, 13, December, Gabriela Muskała's debut film will hit cinemas across Poland!
We invite you to the screenings, the list of cinemas is available on the distributor's website: www.dystrybucjamowiserwis.pl/blazny-rez-gabriela-muskala
Film synopsis:
Łukasz and Julka, as well as Olo and Alicja, two friendly couples, are just finishing their acting studies. They dream of great roles and a quick path to the top. When they learn that their graduation film will be directed by the famous director Gajda, they decide to take advantage of the opportunity. The director has to choose two people for the main roles from the entire class. A classic "rat race" begins among the students. During improvisation of scenes for the film based on the themes of jealousy, lies, manipulation and betrayal, Łukasz is paired with Olo, and Julka with Alicja. The young actors slowly begin to perceive their partners as a threat. Tensions grow, revealing ambitions, complexes and unsettled matters. The line between fiction and reality blurs, and the graduation film becomes a scene of envy and desperate rivalry. Will friendship survive? Or will fame prove more important?
THE CLOWNS
Credits:
SCREENPLAY & DIRECTION Gabriela Muskała
CINEMATOGRAPHY Piotr Żurawski
EDITING Jakub Darewski, Kosma Kowalczyk
PRODUCER Agata Golańska
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ewa Hoffmann
PRODUCTION MANAGER Aleksandra Dziura
SET DESIGNER Zofia Mazurczak-Prus
COSTUMES Kinga Kubiak
MAKE-UP Matylda Morska
CHOREOGRAPHY Daria Szymańska
COLOUR CORRECTION Piotr Putko
SOUND DIRECTION Michał Kosterkiewicz, Michał Kosterkiewicz Jr MUSIC Zbigniew Zamachowski
ARTISTIC SUPERVISION Mariusz Grzegorzek
PRODUCTION Szkoła Filmowa w Łodzi
CO-PRODUCER EC1 Łódź – the City of Culture in Łódź, Indeks Film Studio
POSTER Kreacja Pro Andrzej Pągowski, Magdalena Błażków
CAST: Sebastian Dela, Jan Łuć, Justyna Litwic, Magdalena Dwurzyńska, Szymon Kukla, Jakub Dąbrowski, Karolina Kostoń, Klaudia Janas, Daniel Stanko, Oliwer Witek, Bogumiła Trzeciakowska, Klaudia Koścista, Jakub Sierenberg, Mikołaj Trynda
and Oskar Hamerski as the director GAJDA
with special guest appearances of Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert and Robert Więckiewicz