Date
Hour
Place
03/08
21:00
SMALL MARKET SQUARE
Karbala
reż|dir Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | PL | 2015 | 115 min
prod|pro Włodzimierz Niderhaus scen|wr Krzysztof Łukaszewicz zdj|ph Arkadiusz Tomiak muz|mus Cezary Skubiszewski mon|ed Michał Czarnecki ob|cast Bartłomiej Topa, Antoni Królikowski, Hristo Shopov, Atheer Adel, Leszek Lichota, Michał Żurawski, Tomasz Schuchardt, Zbigniew Stryj dys|dis WFDiF
DESCRIPTION
In April of 2004, in Karbala, Iraq, the largest battle fought by Polish soldiers took place since the end of World War II. During a Muslim holiday, Al-Qaida and al-Sadr militants staged an uprising against the stabilization forces. The target of especially fierce attacks was the Karbala City Hall – the seat of lawful Iraqi authorities and police headquarters. For four days and nights, an 80-man Polish-Bulgarian unit held off all attacks by the terrorists, despite lacking food and expending almost all ammunition, and persevered until relief forces arrived.
AWARDS
2015 Gdynia Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lions as Best Film2015 Camerimage International Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Frog in the Polish Film Competition (Arkadiusz Tomiak)
2016 Polish Film Awards: Eagles – Best Cinematography (Arkadiusz Tomiak), nominated for: Best Production Design (Arkadiusz Tomiak), Best Editing (Michael Czarnecki)
DIRECTOR
Krzysztof Łukaszewicz (1976) Director and screenwriter. Krzysztof graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Szczecin and the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw. He began his film career as a creator of TV series. He co-authored the screenplay for "General Nil" by Ryszard Bugajski. In the category of feature films, his directorial debut was the "Lynch", a story based on facts.FILMOGRAPHY
2015 Karbala2012 Żywie Biełaruś!|Žyvie Biełaruś|Viva Belarus!
2010 Lincz|Lynch
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