Z daleka widok jest piękny
It Looks Pretty From A Distance
The directorial debut of visual artists Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal takes
place in a secluded Polish village near the woods and a river. It is here where the story of a scrapper and a girl unfolds.
In an air of ubiquitous secrecy, the villagers and the couple live their everyday dull lives of hardship until the scrapper
vanishes. His disappearance triggers a chain of unexpected events. In strikingly beautiful surroundings, under a scorching
sun, human evil surfaces. IT LOOKS PRETTY FROM A DISTANCE was screened at the New Horizons Film Festival 2011, where it got
an award for Best New Polish Film.
Director's Biography
Anka Sasnal, born 1973 in Poland. She is an editor and scriptwriter
and lives and works in Kraków, Poland. // Films: Z DALEKA WIDOK JEST PIEKNY (It Looks Pretty from a Distance, 2011) Wilhelm
Sasnal, born 1972 in Tarnów, Poland. He is a painter, drawer, author of comic books and filmmaker, and his artistic works
can be found among others in Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern or the Museum of Modern Art. // Films (Selected): ŚWINIOPAS (Swineherd,
2008), Z DALEKA WIDOK JEST PIEKNY (It Looks Pretty from a Distance, 2011)
CROSSING EUROPE AWARDS
2012: CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film
Competition Fiction 2012
Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal
Poland 2011
color
77
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal
Cinematography
Wilhelm Sasnal/Aleksander Trafas
Editing
Beata Walentowska
Sound/Sounddesign Igor Kłaczyński
With Marcin Czarnik, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Nowak, Elżbieta Okupska, Jerzy
Łapiński, Hanka Chojnacka, Michał Pietrzak, Oskar Karaś, Beata Zygarlicka, Waldemar Czyszak, Dawid Wolski
Production
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