Noc Walpurgi

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Noc Walpurgi
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Directed by Marcin Bortkiewicz [1]
CinematographyAndrzej Wojciechowski [1]
Production
companies
Kosmos Production [1]
PS Film Sebastian Petryk [1]
Studio Dzwiekownia [1]
MX35 [1]
Release date
  • September 17, 2015 (2015-09-17)(Gdynia Polish Film Festival)
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Noc Walpurgi is a 2015 Polish horror drama film set on Walpurgis Night.

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Production

The film is based on a stage play and was produced in black and white. [2] [3]

Plot

In Switzerland in 1969 a young French journalist visits an opera singer, walking into her changing room. He claims that he is only there to interview her, but his questions pull the diva towards painful memories and confessions of the Holocaust. [1] [2]

Reception

Łukasz Maciejewski and Dagmara Romanowska of Onet gave it positive reviews. [4] [5] Krzysztof Połaski of Telemagazyn [6] and Bartosz Staszczyszyn of Culture.pl did as well. [7] [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Staff. "Noc Walpurgi". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. 1 2 Taylor, Ella (2015). "Gdynia Film Festival: The Past Flickers Faintly on Polish Screens". Variety . Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  3. https://film.interia.pl/wiadomosci/news-noc-walpurgi-w-kinach-od-25-wrzesnia,nId,1860014 Interia
  4. ŁUKASZ MACIEJEWSKI (September 19, 2017). ""Noc Walpurgi": bez kamuflażu". Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  5. DAGMARA ROMANOWSKA (September 3, 2015). ""Noc Walpurgi": jej wysokość Małgorzata Zajączkowska". Onet.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  6. Krzysztof Połaski (September 29, 2015). ""Noc Walpurgi". Sadomasochistyczna uczta emocjonalna". Telemagazyn (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  7. Bartosz Staszczyszyn (2015). ""Noc Walpurgi"". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  8. https://film.wp.pl/film-noc-walpurgi-zwycieza-festiwal-w-los-angeles-minuta-ciszy-dla-andrzeja-wajdy-6047490031776385a Wirtualna Polska