Sekret

Secret

Ksawery tritt als Drag-Queen-Tänzer auf. Jan ist sein Großvater und der einzige Mensch, zu dem er eine funktionierende Verwandtschaftsbeziehung hat. Karolina ist Ksawerys Agentin. Gemeinsam besuchen sie Jan auf dem Land. Doch die grünen Wiesen und idyllischen Seen haben schlechte Zeiten gesehen: Gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bemühten sich hier sowohl deutsche Besatzer als auch Polen, die ortsansässigen Juden zu ermorden und zu vertreiben. Karolina stellt Fragen, die der Großvater nicht beantwortet. Auf einer Hochzeitsfeier hätten sie fast zusammen getanzt – der vermeintliche Täter, das potentielle Opfer und der Außenseiter. (Bernd Buder)

“I love these characters. He's gay, she's Jewish. They're outcasts in a society that almost got rid of the likes of them. Almost. But they're both nobodies. He's barely tolerated. She's looking for truth, but she can only plead for help, no one supports her. Eventually, they both explode. Their heads explode. She's returning to this house like a zombie. Hopeless and degraded. He explodes on the stage. If you're human, your head has to explode in a culture of lies, where a murderer is a good neighbor, and no one wants to know, no one cares.” (Przemysław Wojcieszek)

Director's Biography

PRZEMYSŁAW WOJCIESZEK, born 1974 in Poland, is a film and theater director and screenwriter. He studied journalism and Polish literature in Wrocław and Kraków before writing the script for Witold Adamek's film Monday in 1998. In 1999 Wojcieszek debuted as a filmmaker with KILL THEM ALL. LOUDER THAN BOMBS was presented at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was screened at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival in Utah. By 2004 he had already begun working in theater. MADE IN POLAND marked Wojcieszek's debut both as a playwright and as a theatrical director. THE PERFECT AFTERNOON was shown in the Forum section of Berlinale and the New York Polish Film Festival in 2006. The Berlinale Forum also presented Wojcieszek's MADE IN POLAND and SECRET in 2010 and 2012 respectively. Przemysław Wojcieszek is a leading representative of Polish independent cinema.