Magnesia is being directed by Maciek Bochniak and produced by Leszek Bodzak and Aneta Hickinbotham, of Aurum Film, whose credits include the Polish Oscar entry Corpus Christi [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bartosz Bielenia
intervista: Jan Komasa
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intervista: Dawid Ogrodnik
scheda film] by Jan P Matuszyński. In recent years, Bodzak and Hickinbotham have become the go-to producers for so-called “smarthouse” films, and they have many cinema and TV projects in the pipeline. Magnesia is Bochniak’s second feature, after he previously directed Disco Polo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Małgorzata Szumowska
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intervista: Malgorzata Szumowska
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Magnesia is set on the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period. The Mafia-like Lewenfisz family gets a new leader, Róża (Body [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Malgorzata Szumowska
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The film is billed as a western full of black humour and plot twists. Bochniak said in a press release that Magnesia is “based on historical records about the Polish-Soviet border during the interwar period, combined with an auteur approach to a western – or, rather, an ‘eastern’. That town in a remote part of Poland is ruled by women, and the main currency there is the bullet.”

The crew includes DoP Paweł Chorzępa (Zud [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Zofia Wichlacz
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intervista: Lech Majewski
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Q&A: Pawel Pawlikowski
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intervista: Michael Haneke
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intervista: Pawel Pawlikowski
intervista: Pawel Pawlikowski
scheda film], Cold War), Magdalena Boczarska (The Art of Loving [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]), Borys Szyc (Cold War) and Bartosz Bielenia (Corpus Christi). The film is being co-produced by TVN (a Polish private broadcaster), Artpark, Orka and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund. The Polish distributor is Kino Świat, and the domestic release is set for 2 October 2020. The world sales rights are still available.