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Janek

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2008 runtime 15'00 colour Color
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital original-language Polish subtitles English, German

Eleven-year-old Janek is raised under difficult conditions by his single mother. His mother loves him deeply, yet her alcohol addiction and her frequently changing boyfriends are not the ideal preconditions for rearing a child. But Janek doesnt resign. He struggles through his world using his vivid imagination, often accompanied by Wolf-Dieter, a backwards swimming exotic fish. Or is this just a figment of Janeks imagination?

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director Piotr J. Lewandowski Animation Magna Mana Production, Piotr J. Lewandowski, Thomas Maier Editing Piotr J. Lewandowski, Dan Olteanu Script Piotr J. Lewandowski Cast Bijan Zamani, Danuta Stenka, Paul Merkle, Zbigniew Zamachowski Original Score Manana Khundadze DOP Szymon Lenkowski Sound Design Teresa Stepien
Festivals
Festival de Cannes - Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes, France
SCHLiNGEL Internationales Filmfestival für Kinder und junges Publikum, Chemnitz, Germany
Short Cuts Cologne, Köln, Germany
FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS, Mainz, Germany (2. Platz Publikumspreis)
Biberacher Filmfestspiele, Germany (Lobende Erwähnung)
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Piotr J. Lewandowski

Born in Warsaw;
studied in Poland, England and Germany;
since 1996, responsible as director for numerous film projects;
currently working on his feature film debut

Filmography
2003 HEAVY PREGNANT
2005 PAPA
2007 BAUER
2007 VATER & SOHN
2007 DIE AUFSCHNEIDER
2008 JANEK

Portrait of Piotr J. Lewandowski