''Jezioro Bodeńskie'' (English:
Lake Constance
Lake Constance (, ) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein (). These ...
) is a 1986 Polish film directed by
Janusz Zaorski
Janusz Zaorski (born 19 September 1947) is a Polish film director, scenarist and actor, representative of the cinema of moral anxiety (), trend in Polish cinema. Zaorski has directed mainly psychological dramas, comedies and TV series.
Zaorski g ...
. It won the
Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to b ...
at the 1986
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narr ...
.
Synopsis
The film tells the story of a Polish man who spent time in an internment camp during the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, in the city of
Konstanz
Konstanz ( , , , ), traditionally known as Constance in English, is a college town, university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the Baden-Württemberg state of south Germany. The city ho ...
, on the Swiss-German border. Many years later, he revisits the location and meets other internees he knew there, including several women with whom he had romantic affairs.
Cast
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Krzysztof Pieczyński
Krzysztof Pieczyński (born 27 March 1957) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1979.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1957 births
Living people
Polish male film actors
Polish male television a ...
as the protagonist
*
Małgorzata Pieczyńska
Małgorzata Pieczyńska (née Maciejewska) (born 4 May 1960) is a Polish film and television actress. She portrayed forensic scientist Nadja on '' Bäckström'' across three seasons in 2020, 2022 and 2024.
Personal life
Pieczyńska was born i ...
as Suzanne
*
Joanna Szczepkowska as Janka
*
Maria Pakulnis as Renee Bleist
*
Gustaw Holoubek
Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.
Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Pol ...
as Roullot
*
Andrzej Szczepkowski as Thomson
*
Henryk Borowski
Henryk Borowski (14 February 1910 in Płock – 13 November 1991 in Warsaw) was a Polish theater, radio and film actor. as Wildermayer
*
Krzysztof Zaleski as Harry Markowski
*
Krzysztof Gosztyła as MacKinley
*
Wojciech Wysocki as Vilbert
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Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski as Cleont
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Krzysztof Kowalewski as Pociejak
*
Jan Kociniak as Klaus
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Janusz Bukowski
Janusz is a masculine Polish given name.
It is also the shortened form of January and Januarius.
People
* Janusz Akermann (born 1957), Polish painter
* Janusz Bardach, Polish gulag survivor and physician
* Janusz Bielański, Roman Catholic pri ...
as Max Pfitzner
*
Adam Ferency
Adam Ferency (born 5 October 1951) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1976. He starred in the 1990 film '' Burial of a Potato'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Ca ...
as Jasiek Paluch
*
Grzegorz Wons as Jean Ledoix
* Krzyś Paszkowski sa Krupski
*
Wojciech Paszkowski as Krupski
References
External links
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1986 films
Golden Leopard winners
Polish drama films
Films directed by Janusz Zaorski
Lake Constance
Films set in Baden-Württemberg
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