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| "OF THE QUARREL OF ALL QUARRELS" FROM THE CYCLE "FOURTEEN TALES FROM LAILONIA KINGDOM BY LESZEK KOŁAKOWSKI" (Based on the philosophical parables "Tales from Lailonia Kingdom for the Big and Small" by Leszek Kołakowski) |
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| Script, direction, design, animation by | Piotr Dumała |
| Music by | Bernard Kawka |
| Camera by | Jan Maciej Ptasiński |
| Editing & sound by | Wiesław Nowak |
35 mm, colour, 27 m, 01:00 min., Year of production: 1996 |
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O NAJWIĘKSZEJ KŁÓTNI |
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| Directed & Photography by | Zbigniew Kotecki |
| Script & dialogues by | Jan Zamojski |
| Set, Puppets and Costumes by | Maria Balcerek |
| Music by | Marcin Pospieszalski |
| Music performed by | Marcin Pospieszalski - violin, singing; Joszko Broda - pipe, bagpipes, leaf, straw; Marta Stanisławska - dulcimer; Piotr Żyżelewicz - Konga; Angelika Górny - singing |
| Choreography by | Izadora Weiss |
| Animation by | Krzysztof Brzozowski & Adam Wyrwas |
| Editing by | Teresa Miziołek |
| Sound by | Wiesław Nowak |
| Puppets made by | Dariusz Kalita |
| Props made by | Jacek Spychalski |
| Set made by | a team headed by Maria Balcerek: Małgorzata Wolańska, Krzysztof Brzozowski, Jacek Spychalski, Sylwia Nowak, Dorota Dubiak, Magdalena Chruszcz, Katarzyna Sierżant, Leszek Jaroszewki, Roman Piwocki, Maciej Dauksza, Wiktor Dzwoniarek. |
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| Narrator: | Zbigniew Zapasiewicz |
| Eino: | Andrzej Arciszewski |
| Aho: | Marek Frąckowiak |
| Laje: | Paweł Iwanicki |
| and: | Beata Kawka, Joanna Orzeszkowska, Elżbieta Bednarek, Tomasz Bednarek, Paweł Szczesny, Robert Tondera, Włodzimierz Bednarski |
| Production Manager by | Ewa Sobolewska |
| Series executive director by | Maciej Wojtyszko |
| Editor, TV SFA: | Anna M. Zaremba |
| Editor, TVP S.A.: | Krystyna Chojnicka |
| Production: | Telewizja Polska S.A. - Telewizyjne Studio Filmów Animowanych, Poznań |
| Producer & Distributor: | Telewizja Polska S.A. |
The Elder Set, puppets and photography was made in "Semafor" Film Studio in Łódź. The film made in the puppet animation technique: 35 mm, colour, 501 m, 18:20 min. Production date: 22.11.1999; © TVP SA 1999 Premiere: December 3, 1999 in "Polonia" cinema in Łódź during the official opening of the Exhibition of Puppets and Set in the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź. |
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| Synopsis of the film | |
The heroes of the film are three brothers: Eino, Aho and Laje. They earn their daily crust working their family land. Eino works from dawn till dusk. Aho likes to have a good time in the local inn and Laje sometimes helps Eino and sometimes accompanies Laje. One day Aho was cheated at dice and lost the farm. The brothers set off in search of work. They arrive at a road trifurcating. Eino wants to go left, Aho right and Laje keeps switching sides. Unable to convince each other the brothers start a mighty quarrel. In the end, afraid to walk alone they decide to keep together and go down the road chosen by Eino. Together they travel through forests, fight wild animals and forage for food. In the end they arrive at the gates of the city from Eino?s dreams. However, it turns out that that the only work they can beg to get is at a building site of a new palace and they have to work for food. They toil from dawn till dusk. Disenchanted, Aho dreams of the land of happiness, which in his opinion lies at the end of the road he thought they should have taken. Aho gets to the road?s trifurcating. The remaining brothers do not hear anything about his fate for a long time and in the end they get the news of his death. Eino tries to convince Laje to stay with him in the city. But after a while Laje too decided to set off in search of a better city. |
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ON PUPPETS AND SET | |
| PUPPETS Size: 52 cm.
Puppets are made of latex [sculpture made of plasticine, plaster cast, process of compressed latex burning]; 14 basic structures - "anatomic" puppet skeletons with full animation-movement capabilities; 22 simplified structures; 36 persons participate in crowd scenes. Skeleton construction of puppets was adjusted to the requirements the full frame-by-frame animation (24 frames/ sec.) The puppets have: - moving eyes and eyelids - moving jaws - full facial expression, capability of blowing the cheeks, - capability of breathing with the chest, - wigs and facial hair Puppet costumes were made of natural fibres [linen, wool, cotton, leather]. SET:
- 9 main indoor sets
- average size of decorations: 4-5 m wide, 5 - 6m deep, 3 - 4 m high - set made of wood, wicker and plaster, cocoa fibre and dried corn, grass, moss and forest undergrowth, branches and natural roots - size of the hand-painted background: 4 m x 7.5 m - set foundations made of modules - various elements can be joined to make new sets. Puppets, set, costumes and props were inspired by the following paintings of Peter Bruegel I:
"Haymaking"/ 1565 "The Corn Harvest"/ 1565 "The Wedding Dance in the Open Air"/ 1566 "The Peasant Dance"/ 1568 "The Peasant Wedding Banquet"/ 1568 "The Parable of the Blind"/ 1568 "The Land of Cockaigne"/ 1567 "The Tower of Babel"/ 1563 PHOTOGRAPHY: Manual Animation - frame-by-frame [24 frames/ sec.] made by 2 animators
Crowd scenes photographed with 2 cameras Trick shots made with CRASS camera on Eastman Kodak negative Vision 35mm/ 320 ASA. |
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