A PORTER FROM MEWA HOTEL

PORTIER Z HOTELU MEWA

People’s Republic of Poland. Włodzimierz Zawada, a porter at one of the workers‘ hotels is an exemplary citizen whose undisturbed daily existence passes without note. An unexpected finding that he comes across on a hotel’s corridor turns his life upside down, putting him in a Kafkian situation. Soon, it turnes out that Zawada is used as a scapegoat by the local authorities trying to express, on every opportunity, their devotion to the party.  When this elaborate plan is about to be successfully completed things suddenly take on a new direction. „A porter from Mewa Hotel“ is a bitter-sweet, grotesque crime story that depicts the ugly methods of communist regime, revealing each of its ambiguities and obscurities.

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  • Genre: Fabularny
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 29
  • Year: 2012

Director: Michał Janów

Script: Michał Janów

DOP: Weronika Bilska

Music: Przemysław Frankowski

Editing: Przemysław Chruścielewski

Production company: Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

About the director:

Michał Janów

Michał Janów

born in 1978 in Zywiec, Poland. Graduated from Directing Department at  Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and Television Facutly of University of Silesia in Katowice. He is a student at documentary course at Wajda School. He is the author of documentaries "Word" (2006), "Backward" (2006), fiction shorts "Guard" (2007), "Tamar" (2011) i  "Day after tomorrow" (2008) and animated "Peoples’ shadows" (2010). "A Porter from Mewa Hotel " is his graduation film.

At festivals:

T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2012, Poland, 2012 (competition)

Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy, France, 2012 (screening)

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)

28th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (screening)

53rd Brno 16 International Short Fiction Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2012 (competition)

19th Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, Poland, 2012 (competition)

International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium, 2012 (competition)

23rd MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2013 (competition)

20th Etiuda&Anima IFF, Poland, 2013 (screening)