Feature film Panorama 44th Film Week

SZENT

Director
Sebastian Buttny
Length
105 min
Production company
MÁTRIX FILM KFT
SZENT – poster

About the film

1986. Communist Poland. Unknown individuals break into the Gniezno Cathedral and steal the life-sized silver relic holder statue of St. Adalbert, the founder of Polish Christianity. The investigation is entrusted to the inexperienced detective Andrzej Baran, whose wife is an internationally renowned art historian. The young detective is aware that two years after the politically charged murder of the anti-communist Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, the public mood is tense due to another anti-church crime. As the investigation begins with great ambition, doubts arise in Andrzej: is it possible that the theft of the statue is part of an internal political game?

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Credits

Director
Sebastian Buttny
Producer
KÁNTOR LÁSZLÓ, IZABELA KISZKA-HOFLIK
Screenplay
Sebastian Buttny
Cinematography
LUKASZ GUTT
Editor
WITOLD CHOMINSKI
Music
PEJTSIK PÉTER
Sound
MAJOR CSABA
Production design
ELWIRA PLUTA
Costume design
BÁNRÉVI BARBARA
Cast
MATEUSZ KOSCIUKIEWICZ, AGNIESZKA ZULEWSKA
Production company
MÁTRIX FILM KFT