5 Overlooked Polish Films
Recommended Films. Henyrk Golebiewski. Piotr Trzaskalski. Polski Noir. Michal Szczesniak Piotr Domalewski Marcin Zarzeczny Marcin Ciaston.Julia Kijowska
Edi (2002) was directed by Piotr Trzaskalski with a screenplay by Wojciech Lepianka and Piotr Trzaskalski.
The star of Edi, Henyrk Golebiewski, is a man with a face so lived in squatters wouldn’t stay there. A former child star, whose life went off the rails when he became an adult, he went AWOL and was eventually tracked down by Trzaskalski – the director – to play the eponymous Edi who, along with his friend Jureczek, walks the streets of Lodz – a decaying industrial city- collecting scrap. Edi is a smart man, however, with a fridge full of books which he devours. Like Golebiewski he has had his share of hard knocks but Edi still believes that ‘It can be Christmas every day if you want it to be.’
A pair of local gangster brothers – who have recently beaten one of Edi’s scrap collector friends to death – ask Edi to help their beloved sister – Princess – pass here exams. Princess is secretly in love with Gypsy, one of the gangsters’ henchman, though. Something her over–protective brot…
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