PARDON

Genre: drama
Directed by: Jan Jakub Kolski
Script: Jan Jakub Kolski
Music: Dariusz Gorniok
Cinematography: Julian A. Ch. Kernbach, Jan Jakub Kolski (16 mm camera)
Edited by: Konrad Sniady
Producers: Jan Jakub Kolski, Agnieszka Janowska, Pawel Kosun, Aleksandra Michael
Production: Wytwornia Doswiadczalna
Year of production: 2018
Duration: 100 minutes

Cast: Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Jan Jankowski, Michal Kaleta, Krzysztof Globisz

Awards:
2019 12th ‘Vistula’ Polish Film Festival in Moscow: 3rd Award for ‘showing difficult times through a deeply personal story’
2018 ‘Golden Lions’ in the following categories: Best Leading Actress (Grazyna Blecka-Kolska), Best Costumes (Monika Onoszko), Best Script (Jan Jakub Kolski)

The film, set in post-war Poland, tells the story of mourning parents setting off on their last journey with their son, as seen from the point of view of their grandson Jan. The son of Hanna and Jakub, a Home Army soldier Waclaw "Odrowaz" Szewczyk, is shot by the secret police in the autumn of 1946. Hanna and Jacob decide to provide their son with a proper burial in the Paclawska Calvary, 500 km away from their home. Their venture through Poland – a country still haunted by the post-war nightmare, becomes a metaphorical journey into the depths of the human soul and an attempt to reorder the definition of humanity in the world where neighbors turn against each other, and current enemy may become an unexpected ally.