IMAGO
IMAGO
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The name of Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarność movement, is mentioned only once. «Let them play, them political boys», says Ela to her roommates in a psychiatric hospital when they suddenly start discussing the news. IMAGO is a biography based on a real-life story. Co-writer and lead actress Lena Góra plays her own mother, Ela Góra, a female artist who was a punk star of the Baltic Tricity underground stage, struggled with bipolar disorder and found herself completely unprepared for the unexpected motherhood. Director Olga Chajdas takes viewers on a psychedelic journey into the world of underground clubs, where the audience freezes in a trance to a new song, untidy bars drowning in cigarette smoke, and cramped apartments where entire families huddle together in complete lovelessness. But even in these conditions, creative freedom flourishes against all odds.
Text: Ksenia Reutova
Lena Góra, Olga Chajdas
Tomasz Naumiuk
Jan Schermer
Anna Anosowicz
Smolik
Olga Chajdas - Her films have been screened at international festivals, including International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Raindance Film Festival, Calgary IFF, Moscow IFF, Karlove Vary IFF and Camerimage. She collaborated with Warsaw theaters, including Na Woli Theater , Studio Theater and Och-Teatr. Her debut feature film "Nina” received, among others the main prize in the Big Screen Competition at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, 3 prizes including Złoty Pazur in the "Inne Spojrzenie” section of the Polish Feature Films Festival in Gdynia, the Main Prize in the Polish Film Competition at the Camerimage Festival. She co-created the first Polish series "1983” for Netflix. She directed the third season of the "The Pack” series for HBO, which brought her the Polish Film Award: Eagles 2020 in the category "Best TV Series”. Olga is in pre-production for her second feature film "IMAGO”. Script for this film (which Olga is co-writer) get Special Mention on XIII ScripTeast during Cannes Film Festival. At the 48th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, the film "Imago" was awarded Silver Lions, the award for Best Music and Lead Actress (Lena Gora).