BELCANTO
synopsis
It's 1966, in a small town in Pomerania. Marzęda, a provincial tenor and the town's favourite who is always singing at official ceremonies and church celebrations, loses his job and social position because of a conflict with his neighbour, a local beauty acting as a geisha. His old friend, General Ogórcow, a commander of forces stationed at a nearby airport and an avowed music and alcohol lover, had also experienced the wickedness of women. His third wife has just run away with a counter-espionage agent to West Berlin. Ogórcow decides that he will personally drop two atomic bombs on West Berlin to bury this wicked world...
international title: | Belcanto |
original title: | Belcanto |
country: | Poland |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ryszard Maciej Nyczka |
screenplay: | Ryszard Maciej Nyczka |
cast: | Cezary Pazura, Magdalena Rózczka, Piotr Gasowski, Hanna Śleszyńska, Bronislaw Wroclawski, Agnieszka Wosińska, Renata Dancewicz, Aleksandra Kisio, Mariusz Czajka, Lech Dyblik |
cinematography by: | Pawel Wendorff |
art director: | Krzysztof Baumiller |
costumes designer: | Agnieszka Kaczyńska, Marlena Skoneczko |
producer: | Jadwiga Wendorff, Paweł Mossakowski, Paweł Śmietanka |
production: | Anima-Pol, Canal+ Polska, Wytwórnia Filmowa Czołówka |
distributor: | Vivarto |