Theatre on the Border Project
"The Hamlet Syndrome" - movie screening and a meeting with creators: Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski
(the movie is in Ukrainian language with Polish subtitles; a meeting translated into Ukrainian)
During the event, the funds will be collected for the Mi-Gracja Association in Szczecin.
"The Hamlet Syndrome" presents young generation of Ukrainians marked by the war and the political breakthrough. The movie's starting point is the theatre rehearsal for the play loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rehearsals combined with entering private lives of the artists create a touching portrait of the generation that tries to overcome war trauma and painful past which, after the Russian invasion on Ukraine, has become their reality.
(Poland, Germany, 2022, Barwny, 85 min)
'The audience of the play is not able to distance themselves from the tragic events that are being recalled. There is also no distance between the actors and the camera that films them. The creators achieved the rare art of capturing emotions in statu nascendi. The actors never look directly at the lens, they don't expose the camera which, not only, pierces through the stages fourth wall, but all possible grounds.'
(Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun)
Directing: Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski
Production: Magdalena Kamińska, Agata Szymańska and Andreas Banz, Matthias Miegel, Robert Thalheim, Kundschafter Filmproduktion in cooproduction with CANAL+ SUDWESTRUNKDFUNK with support of ARTE in cooperation with ChickenÈ Pictures.
Organizer: Kana Theatre
Partners: The Szczecin Art Academy, Mi-Gracja Association in Szczecin
