Hope
- 2007
- Stanislaw Mucha
- 100 mins
- 15
Review
This mischievous parable on redemption from scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz completes the Dantesque trilogy that includes Tom Tykwer's Heaven (2002) and Danis Tanovic's L'Enfer (2005). Anxious to atone for his part in his mother's accidental death years before, angelic-looking Rafal Fudalej seeks to save the soul of crooked art-gallery owner Wojciech Pszoniak by offering him the chance to return a valuable religious painting that he stole from a neighbourhood church. However, investigating cop Zbigniew Zamachowski suspects Fudalej's motives, especially after he visits his jailbird brother Grzegorz Artman. With documentarist Stanislaw Mucha packing his fiction-film debut with celestial imagery and references to repentance and renewal, this is very much a treatise on the relevance of Christianity in a Poland in thrall to the new religion of capitalism. But, more fittingly, it's also a poignant humanist study that owes much to the work of Piesiewicz's late collaborator Krzysztof Kieslowski (The Three Colours trilogy).
How to watch
Credits
Cast
role | name |
---|---|
Franciszek Ratay | Rafal Fudalej |
Benedykt Weber | Wojciech Pszoniak |
Klara | Kamila Baar |
Inspector Sopel | Zbigniew Zamachowski |
Ojciec | Zbigniew Zapasiewicz |
Michal | Grzegorz Artman |
Matka | Dominika Ostalowska |
Crew
role | name |
---|---|
Director | Stanislaw Mucha |
Details
- Theatrical distributor
- Dogwoof Pictures
- Released on
- 2008-04-18
- Languages
- Polish
- Formats
- Colour