Polish Post Office by the media patron of the film "Filip"
On March 3, the screening of Leopold Tyrmand's novel entitled "Filip" will enter the cinemas throughout Poland. Poczta Polska is the patron of this film, which has already been awarded with silver lions at the 47th FPFF in Gdynia.
The film takes place in 1943 in Frankfurt. The title hero - Filip - is a typical cosmopolitan and a seducer incapable of deeper feelings. In Poland he lost the whole family. Sam, being in the heart of Nazi Germany, hides Jewish origin and often escapes death. He works as a waiter in an exclusive hotel restaurant and carelessly benefits from the charms of life surrounded by luxury, beautiful women and friends from all over Europe. When the war begins to take a bloody harvest among people closest to him, this intricately built world that surrounds him falls like a house of cards.
The film does not put monuments to the heroes of war. He shows antiheroes who simply wanted to survive - without patriotic pathos, ordinary, fears and doubts.
This is not a war picture. This is a study of a lonely, alienated man in trauma. Filip was to be an architect, but fate made him a waiter every day. How many such people today are there? Fugitives from Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan ... The Second World War is just the setting, the set design of this film story. The hero's psychological and moral problem is important, and Filip shows us that he can be universal regardless of the time frames.
The film directed by Michał Kwieciński, the title role was played by Eryk Kulm jr. Sandra Drzymalska, Robert Więckiewicz and young European actors: Victor Meutelet, Caroline Hartig and Zoe Straub.
