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Polish film in Oscar race |
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Wpisany przez Jan Bernacki
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Piątek, 26 Luty 2010 00:00 |
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 A vigorous campaign is under way in the United States to promote the Polish documentary Królik po berlińsku (Rabbit à la Berlin) in its race for an Oscar award. The film has special public screenings in New York (Sunday), Los Angeles (3 and 5 March) and Washington (7March).
The film’s producer Anna Wydra, who has been in the United States for the past week, will be joined next week by the director, thirty seven year-old Bartek Konopka. At a press conference in Warsaw, he seemed to be looking ahead to the final week of lobbying with much confidence.
Konopka and Wydra will appear in the popular show ‘Good Morning America’ on ABC Television.
Rabbit à la Berlin shows the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall from a completely new, allegorical perspective, in the style of a nature documentary. The Death Zone of the Berlin Wall was inhabited by thousands of rabbits. They felt safe and secure when they were inside what was, in fact, two separate walls, with a 120-kilometre strip of land between them. One day the walls came down and the rabbits were freed from a restrictive system, albeit one to which they had become accustomed.
The film won a nomination in the Short Documentary Category. The Academy Awards gala will be held in Los Angeles on 7 March.
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