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TWARZ

By Małgorzata SZUMOWSKA

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Drama - Completed 2017

A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2018

Competition

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- POLAND
- Languages
- POLISH
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Małgorzata SZUMOWSKA
- Cast
- Mateusz KOSCIUKIEWICZ, Agnieszka PODSIADLIK, Małgorzata GOROL, Roman GANCARCZYK, Dariusz CHOJNACKI, Anna TOMASZEWSKA, Martyna KRZYSZTOFIK, Robert TALARCZYK
- Synopsis
- Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment, and keeps his muscles toned working on a building site close to the Polish-German border where the world’s largest statue of Jesus is being constructed. But then his life is thrown badly off course by a terrible accident at work that completely disfigures him. Eagerly followed by the Polish media, Jacek becomes the first person in the country to receive a face transplant. He may be celebrated as a national hero and martyr, but he no longer recognises himself in the mirror. Meanwhile, the statue of Jesus grows taller and taller. Whilst events around Jacek come thick and fast, the film never loses sight of the bigger picture and instead brings things even more into focus. Twarz uses the format of an acerbic farce to consider conditions in modern-day Poland and explore life in the provinces, revealing a country that is busy setting its faith in stone.