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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
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Amok
1999 1h 40m PL
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Synopsis
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Entertaining movie about the early days of Polish stock exchange in the beginning of 80's. Young TV reporter is sucked into the inferno of easy money, deception, crime, sex and drugs. Sometimes like Kieslowski's moral tales, sometimes like Pasikowski's brutal fables, even sometimes like "Once upon a time in America". Fantastic creations of Baka as Maks and Majchrzak as Rekin /the Shark/ - evil incarnated.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Rafał Maćkowiak
Maciek Kast
Mirosław Baka
Maksymilian "Max" Rybak
Krzysztof Majchrzak
"Rekin"
Magdalena Cielecka
Julia
Ewa Gorzelak
Ewa
Cezary Morawski
szef radia
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Leopold Kast, ojciec Maćka
Małgorzata Pritulak
matka Maxa
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
- Writers
- Natalia Koryncka-Gruz, Robert Brutter
- Languages
- Polish
- Countries
- Poland
Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.
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The take
Natalia Koryncka-Gruz directs. Zdzisław Najda behind the camera. Milenia Fiedler cuts. Produced in Poland. Dialogue in Polish.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 127 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 2Directed by Natalia Koryncka-Gruz, shot by Zdzisław Najda. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 3Editor Milenia Fiedler shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 4Rafał Maćkowiak and Mirosław Baka and Krzysztof Majchrzak carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0190965 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Zdzisław Najda
- Editing
- Milenia Fiedler
- Runtime
- 100 min · 1h 40m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- PL
- IMDB
- Amok (1999)
Also by
Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
Production companies
Who made it
- KO
Komitet Kinematografii
PL
Key crew
- ScriptDanuta Malipan
- Costume DesignerWiesława Starska
- MusicMichał Lorenc
- Art DesignerLeszek Wojciech Badiak
- SoundKatarzyna Dzida-Hamela
- EditorMilenia Fiedler
- Production ManagerDorota Ostrowska-Orlińska
- DecoratorMagdalena Kujszczyk
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1999-04-16
