Valley of the Issa

Dolina Issy, feature film, 1982

DIRECTED BY: Tadeusz Konwicki

Valley of the Issa

CAST:
Maciej Mazurkiewicz (Tomaszek),
Anna Dymna (Magdalena),
Maria Pakulnis (Barbarka),
Danuta Szaflarska (baka Misia),
Ewa Wisniewska (Helena),
Edward Dziewonski (baka Surkont)

SCRIPT:
Tadeusz Konwicki (prema istoimenom romanu Czeslawa Milosza)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jerzy Lukaszewicz

Synopsis:
In the time between the two world wars, young Tomaszek spends his childhood in the valley of Issa on a rich farm on the border of Lithuania and Poland. Even though he is surrounded by idyllic nature and he keeps escaping to a fantasy world, the boy cannot help noticing changes in the valley which have arisen as a consequence of social unrest and political conflicts of the 1920s.

35 mm, color, 110 min