Pardon + a meeting with Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska

Podlasie Academy of Culture at the Białystok Cultural Centre and the Polish Film Institute have the pleasure of inviting you to a film:

PARDON and a meeting with actress Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska

March 31st, 2019, 4 PM
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
tickets: 8 PLN, available at the Forum cinema’s box office (5 Legionowa Street), BCC/LZC’ box office (19 Warszawska Street) and on bilety.bok.bialystok.pl

Pardon
Poland/Czechia 2018, 100′
dir. Jan Jakub Kolski
cast: Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska, Jan Jankowski, Michał Kaleta, Krzysztof Globisz, Michał Kowalski, Marta Ścisłowicz

‘Pardon’ is a story of parents of a cursed soldier told from a perspective of their 17 year old grandson Janek. „Odrowąż” dies in 1946, Department of Security digs up his body four Times to make sure that the enemy of the state is truly dead. The mother can’t bear the humiliation, she steals away the coffin with the body, forces the husband to travel to Pacławska Calvary to bury their son again. The journey is full of dramatic events. Travellers are joined by Jurgen, a fugitive from a prisoner-of-war camp.

Film written into the dramatic history of post war Poland, that still remains universal in its story – a struggle of two parents to regain their dignity and balance in life after losing their child.