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CRULIC - THE PATH TO BEYOND

POLISH TITLE: DROGA NA DRUGĄ STRONĘ

The animated  documentary feature-length Crulic – The Path to Beyond tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who died in  a Polish prison while on hunger strike.

The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Ivanov, (in polish version  Polish actor Maciej Stuhr) narrates Crulic’s ironic voice over  from beyond the grave. A strong visual style, the result of beautiful hand drawn, collage, stop-motion and cut-out animation techniques, blend to create a striking, surprisingly integrated and memorable film.  
 

GENRE:
documentary / animation
RUNNING TIME:
76'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Anca Damian
SCRIPT:
Anca Damian
MUSIC:
Piotr Dziubek
PRODUCTION:
Aparte Film, Fundacja im. Ferdynanda Magellana, Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, Editur Video

Anca Damian »

studied at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts where she obtained a diploma in Cinematography and a Doctor’s degree in Arts, Cinema and Media. “A Very Unsettled Summer” (2013), a Romanian-Czech-Swedish-UK coproduction is the third long fiction feature that she produced, directed and co-wrote. Her second feature as director, screenwriter and producer "Crulic – The Path to Beyond" (2011). Both the autobiographic narration and the experimental form ensured the Kafkaesque movie favor of many festival selectors – Locarno, BFI London, Annecy, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Pusan, New Directors/New Films in New York among others 150 film festivals. The movie got the Cristal Award in Annecy, and more than 25 prizes at other festivals. In 2008 she made her first long feature film as a director, screenwriter and co-producer.  ‘Crossing Dates’/Intalniri incrucisate (2008) was selected at Pusan, Chicago, Goa, Cottbus, Goteborg and Rome. Before this, Anca worked as a director, screenwriter and producer for several documentaries on art, and also worked as director of photography of two feature films and many documentaries and shorts.
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