[ Polish version ]
"OF THE GREAT SHAME"
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: Piotr Dumała
Music: Bernard Kawka
Camera: Jan Maciej Ptasiński
Editing and sound: Wiesław Nowak

35 mm, colour, 27 m, 01:00 min., Year of production: 1996

 

O WIELKIM WSTYDZIE
(OF THE GREAT SHAME)

Directed by, artwork: Jacek Adamczak
Script by, dialogues: Jan Zamojski
Layout: Jacek Adamczak, Maciej Matecki, Janusz Gałązkowski
Animation: Jacek Adamczak, Edyta Budziszyn, Janusz Gałązkowski, Paweł Iwanowski, Elżbieta Kandziora, Maciej Matecki, Edyta Mazurczuk, Ewa Rodewald, Agnieszka Szcześniak
Music and performed by Zbigniew Kozub
Solo on trumpet: Roman Gryń
Voices director: Ewa Złotowska
Voices:
Narrator: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Rio: Tomasz Bednarek
General: Mirosław Zbrojewski
Fairy: Antonina Girycz
Pau: Mieczysław Morański
Camera: Krzysztof Szyszka, Krzysztof Napierała
Editing: Jacek Adamczak
Sound: Wiesław Nowak
Production Manager: Ewa Samborska
Series executive director: 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 film made in the classical animation on celluloid, 35 mm, colour, 438 m, 16:00 min., Production date: 05.08.1998; © TVP SA 1998

Premiere: 07.11.1998 r. on 10! Annual Polish Film Festival w Chicago

   

 

 

Synopsis of the film

Rio, a young fisherman lives in the kingdom of Lailonia. He is in love with Muria but the girl does not reciprocate his feelings. So, when he is called up she is not very concerned. Rio does his military service but at all times things of Muria and neglects his duties. One day he realises with horror that he has forgotten the colour of her eyes. He begins to shrink out of shame. A court martial sentences him to complete disappearance for shrinking without an order. Muria learns of this extraordinary story. Surprise shows in her blue eyes.

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