Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Morgenrot

Morgenrot

Michał Korchowiec
Poland, 2016, 69 Min

A young filmmaker heads to Masuria, in northern Poland, together with his mother and a handful of dark secrets from her past. Via a series of encounters and discussions with relatives in the region's fields and forests he attempts to shed light on both his Polish and German roots.

Kraków Film Foundation

For seven centuries Masuria belonged to East Prussia, right up until the end of the Second World War when it was incorporated into the Polish People's Republic. Those who remained were forced to assimilate, and yet how was one expected to become a “real” Pole within a matter of weeks in light of the expropriation, violence and compulsion?

Filmmaker Michał Korchowiec is determined to finally unlock his family history. There would appear to no better way to do so than take his mother on a journey back to the places of her childhood, where she is to encounter long-lost relatives. Thus they set off across narrow wood lanes and remote Masurian villages in the north of Poland, as the director breaks the silence and provides his mother and his grandmother with an opportunity to expose the family secrets and harm, as well as understand the historical roots thereof. JG

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Michał Korchowiec
Kamera
Mikołaj Syguda, Magdalena Mosiewicz
Ton
Lena Pejt
Schnitt
Barbara Fronc
Musik
Joanna Halszka Sokołowska
Darsteller
Michał Korchowiec, Małgorzata Korchowiec, Marta Mack-Sienkiewicz, Ulrich Pokraka, Karlonia Korchowiec, Gabriele Günther, Iwona Nowacka
Produzent
Michał Korchowiec
Produktion
Michał Korchowiec
Kontakt
Kraków Film Foundation
Katarzyna Wilk
Ul. Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow
Poland
Tel.: +48.12.294.69 45
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
www.kff.com.pl
Michał Korchowiec

Michał Korchowiec - born 1987 in Katowice, Poland. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and has since been working as a set designer, visual and video artist, film director and producer. His works have received many awards. In addition, Korchowiec is an author as well as a curator of exhibitions.

Movies
CHŁOP RYBKA W E’ARGENTO (2009, short)
PAMIĘTNIK RODZINNY. CENZURA (2010, short)
72 GODZINY (2012, short)
GŁODÓWKA (2014, short)