THE LOVE EQUATION OF HENRY FAST

NIEWIADOMA HENRYKA FASTA

The film shows a lonely life of a retired professor of mathematics. Henryk is a hopeless romantic, a hostage of love, Don Juan ready to sacrifice everything, which he has done more than once, in order to find reciprocated love. When, towards the end of the film, the protagonist’s daughter asks him, ‘So what are you going to do now?,’ he says, ‘I would like to find a woman, but if it was that simple, there would not be so many unhappy, lonely people’.

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Genre: Dokumentalny
Country: Poland
Running time: 41
Year: 2013

Director: Agnieszka Elbanowska

Script: Agnieszka Elbanowska

DOP: Paweł Nadolny

Editing: Agnieszka Elbanowska, Maryla Torbus

Production company: Wajda Studio

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About the director:

Director, editor and photographer. She graduated from the University of Warsaw’s Italian Department, from the History, Theory and Criticism of Cinema and Audiovisual Department of the Roma Tre University, from the Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw, and from the Wajda School. She has collaborated with Polish Television, and has co-created documentary films for TVP Polonia ("Liberta", "Prelude"). Her latest film, “The Love Equation of Henry Fast” was awarded on national and international festivals.

At festivals:

53rd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (The President of the Association of Polish Filmmakers Award)

DOK.Leipizg, Germany, 2013 (screening)

21st Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (competition)

11th European Medium-Length Film Meetings, 2014 (Mention Europe)

FIDE International Student FF, France, 2014 (competition)

28th Pärnu International Documentary and Antropological FF, Estonia, 2014 (competition)

11 Festival du Cinema de Brive, France, 2014 (Europe Mention)