APOKAWIXA
IT CAME FROM THE WATER
After almost two years in lockdown, it’s time for a big party: Kamil invites to the mega event in his father's palace, the castle is built in the 17th century, the pool just recently. But the fertilizer dumped in the Baltic Sea allows cyanobacteria to grow, with consequences for everyone who goes into the water there. The celebration of love is not only disturbed by a group of right-wing extremist hooligans and the local club mafiosi (he is angry that he doesn't earn anything from Kamil's party), but also because all the partygoers soon become zombies. Except for six, who remained human under the leadership of the clever apocalyptist Blitz, grunge rocker and self-proclaimed guardian of the forest. Director Xawery Żuławski has made a name for himself with his skillfully eclectic cinematic mock marriage between genre film and film d’ateur, IT CAME FROM THE WATER is more of a commercial kind of cinema, albeit consistently crazy.
Text: Bernd Buder
Xawery Żuławski, Krzysztof Bernaś i Maciej Kazula
Marian Prokop
Jarosław Bajdowski, Zofia Moruś
Marta Skajnowska
Jan Komar
Mikołaj Kubacki
Waleria Gorobets
Natalia Pitry
Alicja Wieniawa-Narkiewicz
Mariusz Urbaniec
Aleksander Kaleta
Mikołaj Matczak
Marta Stalmierska
Monika Mikołajczak
Oskar Wojciechowski
Sebastian Fabijański
Tomasz Kot
Cezary Pazura
Matylda Damięcka
Michał Karmowski
Jan Sobolewski
Konrad Eleryk
Xawery Żuławski - Łódź Film School graduate, director and scriptwriter. His debut feature Chaos had been awarded a Golden Lion for the best debut at Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. One of the director’s greatest successes is the adaptation of Dorota Masłowska’s novel Snow White and Russian Red. For the film he received Silver Lions at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and many Audience Awards at Polish film festivals (Off Camera, Tofifest, New Horizons). In 2019, the film Bird Talk, based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, was awarded the Award of the Youth Jury at the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia. In 2022, for the film Apokawixa he was awarded the "Golden Claw" at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and the Award of Festivals and Reviews of Polish Film Abroad, he received the Special Jury Award of the Central European Film Festival 3KinoFEST in the Czech Republic. Director and screenwriter of many excellent feature series and documentaries.