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Imago

feature film

Imago is a post-punk psychological drama about a young woman craving life amidst the greyness of the communist Polish People’s Republic – a story about the bond between a mother and a daughter, the hunger for freedom, sex and meditation. The story begins in the Tricity in 1987 and concludes in 1989, after Poland’s first free elections. The story’s backdrop is the rebellious Tricity music scene of the late 1980s, a cultural and social phenomenon of the period and a harbinger of revolutionary changes in Poland. Imago is a powerful and resounding piece of cinema about the various shades of transformation and a portrait of a woman unlike any other in the history of the Polish cinema.

year

2023

director

Olga Chajdas

screenplay

Lena Góra,
Olga Chajdas

countries

PL, NL, CZ

Imago is a post-punk psychological drama about a young woman craving life amidst the greyness of the communist Polish People’s Republic – a story about the bond between a mother and a daughter, the hunger for freedom, sex and meditation. The story begins in the Tricity in 1987 and concludes in 1989, after Poland’s first free elections. The story’s backdrop is the rebellious Tricity music scene of the late 1980s, a cultural and social phenomenon of the period and a harbinger of revolutionary changes in Poland. Imago is a powerful and resounding piece of cinema about the various shades of transformation and a portrait of a woman unlike any other in the history of the Polish cinema.

cast

Ela Góra Lena Góra
Frytka Bogusława Schubert
Tomek Mateusz Więcławek
Stach Wacław Warchoł

crew

producers Dariusz Jabłoński
Violetta Kamińska
Izabela Wójcik
production company Apple Film Production
co-producers Topkapi Films
moloko film
Canal+ Polska
House Media Company
director of photography Tomasz Naumiuk
editor Pavel Hrdlička
soundJan Schermer,
Ivan Horák
music Adrzej Smolik
set designer Anna Anosowicz