LEAVE NO TRACES / ZEBY NIE BYLO SLADÓW

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

LEAVE NO TRACES / ZEBY NIE BYLO SLADÓW

DIRECTOR: Jan P. Matuszynski

COUNTRY: Poland, Czech Republic, France

YEAR/DURATION: 2021 • 160’

GENRE: drama, political thriller

CROATIAN PREMIERE

Info

SCREENPLAY: Kaja Krawczyk-Wnuk (based on the book Żeby nie było śladów. Sprawa Grzegorza Przemyka Cezaryja Łazarewicza, 2016)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kacper Fertacz
EDITOR: Przemysław Chruścielewski
SCORE: Ibrahim Maalouf
ACTORS: Tomasz Ziętek, Sandra Korzeniak, Jacek Braciak, Agnieszka Grochowska, Mateusz Górski, Robert Więckiewicz, Tomasz Kot, Sebastian Pawlak
PRODUCERS: Aneta Hickinbotham, Leszek Bodzak
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Aurum Film
COPRODUCERS: Patrice Nezan, Laurent Versini, Mikulaś Novotny, Olivier Père, Rémi Burah, Małgorzata Seck, Alicja Gancarz, Magdalena Ulejczyk, Anna Spisz
COPRODUCED BY : Les Contes Modernes (France), Arte France Cinéma (France), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes-Cinéma (France), Canal+ (France), Background Films (Czech Republic), Magiclab (Czech Republic), Czech Television (Czech Republic), Mazovia (Poland), Warsaw Film Fund (Poland)
SALES AGENT: New Europe Film Sales
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Venice Film Festival 2021, Main Competition, Cottbus Film Festival – Best Director, Ostend Film Festival – Best Film, Göteborg Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival

Trailer

Synopsis

Based on true events. In 1983, Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by communist police. Jurek Popiel, only witness of the beating, becomes the number one enemy of the state. The oppressive regime used its whole apparatus – the secret service, militia, the media and the courts – to find and silence Jurek, including his parents and Przemyk’s mother, Barbara.

About the director

Jan P. Matuszynski (Katowice, 1984) graduated from the Radio and Television Faculty Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the University of Silesia and completed the Documentary Programme at Wajda School. He is the author of the praised and awarded documentary Deep Love (2013), and his debut feature fiction film The Last Family (2016) was screened at numerous festivals and received various awards and acknowledgments. He is also the author of a number of short films and TV series.

Screening

Kaštel – 22.07.2022
21:30

INK – 23.07.2022
15:30

FREE ENTRANCE

LEAVE NO TRACES / ZEBY NIE BYLO SLADÓW