BAD BOY – HIGH SECURITY CELL

BAD BOY - CELA DLA NIEBEZPIECZNYCH

Locked up in a high security prison for armed robbery, a 28 year-old Polish inmate refuses to let the errors of his youth become his destiny. BAD BOY high security cell offers an exceptional look into one of the most secret places in prisons. Over a period of 78 minutes, we get to know Damian, 28 years old, condemned to ten years in jail for armed bank robbery. His frank and truthful discussion, with himself and with the camera of Janusz Mrozowski, reveals his troubled inner world, his doubts but also his sensitivity and understanding, and with his tattooed arms he holds up a mirror to our society, and to ourselves.

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: France
  • Running time: 77
  • Year: 2012

Director: Janusz Mrozowski

Script: Janusz Mrozowski

DOP: Janusz Mrozowski

Editing: Krzysztof Paluchowski, Karine Olivier

Sound: Janusz Mrozowski

Production company: Janusz Mrozowski

About the director:

Janusz Mrozowski

Janusz Mrozowski

Born in Poland in 1948, he has been living in Paris since 1970. In 1978 he made his first short film, ‘Rzecz’. He set up the Filmogene studio in 1987. He made his feature debut ‘Lucy’s Revenge’ in Burkina Faso in 1998; the film won him an M-Net All Africa Film Award (the African equivalent of an Oscar) in Pretoria. ‘Bad Boys Cell 425’, the only Polish-language film screened at Cannes 2009, was his documentary debut. His next project, ‘Bad Girls Cell 77’, had its world premiere at the 26th Warsaw Film Festival. ‘Bad Boy. High Security Cell’ is his latest film.

At festivals:

25th IDFA, The Netherlands, 2012 (Nomination)

International Film Festival Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film, 2012 (competition)

DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (screening)

9th International Documentary Film Festival ZAGREBDOX, Croatia, 2013 (competition)

13th Belfast Film Festival, 2013 (The Maysles Brothers Award)

Jerusalem Film Festival 2013, Israel, 2013 (screening)

8th Batumi International Art-house Film Festival, Georgia, 2013 (competition)

 25th Polish Film Festival in America, USA, 2013 (screening)

documentary festival IMAGES DE JUSTICE, France, 2014 (competition)