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ICARUS

IKAR, LEGENDA MIETKA KOSZA

By Maciej PIEPRZYCA

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Drama - Completed 2019

Life and genius of Mietek Kosz, blind jazz pianist, a master improviser, a bright lightning in jazz music history.

Ventana Sur 2019

European Screenings

Gdynia Film Festival 2019

Silver Lion Award, Best Male Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Costumes, Best Make-up, Golden Clapper Award

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Biography, True Story
- Countries
- POLAND
- Languages
- POLISH
- Duration
- 122 mn
- Director(s)
- Maciej PIEPRZYCA
- Writer(s)
- Maciej PIEPRZYCA
- Cast
- Dawid OGRODNIK, Mikolaj CHROBOCZEK, Piotr ADAMCZYK, Justyna WASILEWSKA, Jowita BUDNIK, Jacek KOMAN
- Producer(s)
- Renata CZARNKOWSKA-LISTOŚ (Re Studio), Maria GOŁOŚ (Re Studio)
- Synopsis
- Mietek Kosz was a blind pianist, a master improviser: the Polish Bill Evans. He didn’t leave that much behind: one LP and two posthumous collections of odd recordings he did throughout his short career for Polish National Television and National Radio. If Kosz were still alive, he would definitely be one of the biggest names in jazz on the world stage. However, he died young and left only a legend of a genius gone too soon.
  “Icarus” is the story of a phenom and the paradox of life. It’s the emotional journey of a protagonist at odds with the obstacles he faced and with himself, with a rich soundtrack and score and a visual, ascetic depiction of the times in which the story took place.