The Issa Valley 1982
Synopsis
Lithuania, the beginning of the twentieth century, the river Issa valley. A young boy, Tomaszek, is going through the initiation into adulthood. He discovers a story of the priest\'s romance with his landlady which had tragic consequences. He observes unrequited love of a maid to her master, as well as the story of Baltazar, a forester whose existential anxieties lead to madness and crime. The world of the living merges with the world of the dead. The stories of the individual characters are accompanied by devils and demons well-known from Lithuanian legends.
"The Issa Valley" is a film adaptation of a novel by Czesław Miłosz of the same title.
About
Year of production:
1982
Genre:
psychological drama
Premiere:
20-09-1982
Technical specs:
Color, 102 min.
Production:
Filmmakers
Directed by:
Tadeusz Konwicki
Written by:
Tadeusz Konwicki
Cinematography by:
Jerzy Łukaszewicz
Edited by:
Krystyna Rutkowska
Music by:
Zygmunt Konieczny
Sound by:
Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski
Set Decoration by:
Andrzej Borecki
Costume Designer:
Małgorzata Zduleczny
Production Manager:
Ryszard Chutkowski
Cast
Anna Dymna (Magdalena, priest Peikswa\'s housekeeper),
Maria Pakulnis (Barbarka, Romuald\'s maid),
Danuta Szaflarska (Michalina Surkontowa, Tomaszek\'s grandmother),
Ewa Wiśniewska (Helena Juchniewicz, Tomaszek\'s aunt),
Edward Dziewoński (Kazimierz Surkont, Tomaszek\'s grandfather),
Krzysztof Gosztyła (forester Baltazar),
Jerzy Kamas (Romuald Bukowski, the Surkonts\' neighbor),
Jerzy Kryszak (devil Niemczyk),
Maciej Mazurkiewicz (Tomaszek),
Ewa Kuzyk-Florczak (Antonina, the Surkonts\' housemaid),
Anna Juszkiewicz (the Surkonts\' maid),
Marta Lipińska (Tekla Dilbinowa from the Surkonts family, Tomaszek\'s mother),
Hanna Skarżanka (Bukowska, mother of Romuald, Dionizy and Wiktor),
Joanna Szczepkowska (rabbi), Włodzimierz Boruński (rabbi\'s secretary),
Tadeusz Bradecki (Father Peikswa), Tadeusz Chudecki (Domcio Malinowski),
Józef Duriasz (Józef Czarny),
Gustaw Lutkiewicz (Łuk Juchniewicz, aunt Helena\'s husband),
Igor Śmiałowski (Father Monkiewicz, successor of Father Peikswa),
Marek Walczewski (wizard Masiulis),
Elżbieta Jasińska (Pola),
Halina Machulska (Mrs Akulonis),
Urszula Janowicz (Onute Akulonis, Tomaszek\'s colleague),
Marek Bargiełowski (Dionizy, Romuald\'s brother),
Czesław Lasota (Szatybełko),
Bernard Ładysz (Soviet soldier killed by Baltazar),
Olgierd Łukaszewicz (Wiktor, Romuald\'s brother),
Zdzisław Tobiasz (actor on the film set playing "German officer"),
Ryszard Zatorski (assassin Wackonis, Lithuanian nationalist)