galeria filmu The Issa Valley

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)