MAGIC MOUNTAIN
POLISH TITLE: CZARODZIEJSKA GÓRA
“The Magic Mountain”, is a Romanian-Polish-French coproduction, about the life of Adam Jacek Winkler. He was a Polish political refugee in France, who fought in Afghanistan with Massoud’s army. Many people have considered him a madman, guided by his beliefs and love for independendence, challenging death all the time. He wanted to give a meaning to his life, to die for something worthy. Adam Winkler often lived outside the law, he was brave, but also impulsive, cynical and naïve. He believed himself to resemble a naïve but passionate character from Polish children’s literature, Koziołek Matolek, and the way in which he tells the story of his life is not without humor and self-irony.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND, ROMANIA, FRANCE
- RUNNING TIME:
- 80'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Anca Damian
- SCRIPT:
- Anca Damian, Ania Winkler
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Miniatur Filmowych, Filmograf
Anca Damian »
studied at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts where she obtained a diploma in Cinematography and a Doctor’s degree in Arts, Cinema and Media. “A Very Unsettled Summer” (2013), a Romanian-Czech-Swedish-UK coproduction is the third long fiction feature that she produced, directed and co-wrote. Her second feature as director, screenwriter and producer "Crulic – The Path to Beyond" (2011). Both the autobiographic narration and the experimental form ensured the Kafkaesque movie favor of many festival selectors – Locarno, BFI London, Annecy, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Pusan, New Directors/New Films in New York among others 150 film festivals. The movie got the Cristal Award in Annecy, and more than 25 prizes at other festivals. In 2008 she made her first long feature film as a director, screenwriter and co-producer. ‘Crossing Dates’/Intalniri incrucisate (2008) was selected at Pusan, Chicago, Goa, Cottbus, Goteborg and Rome. Before this, Anca worked as a director, screenwriter and producer for several documentaries on art, and also worked as director of photography of two feature films and many documentaries and shorts.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2015 (screening)
- 50th Karolove Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republlic, 2015 (Special Mention)
- 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany , 2015 (MDR FILM Prize)
- 35th Amiens Film Festival, France , 2015 (Grand Prix)
- 14th Les Sommets du Cinema d'Animation, Canada, 2015 (competition)
- 64th Trento Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (Gold Gentian For Best Movie – Gran Premio “Citta’ Di Trento”)
- Animafest Zagreb, 2016 (competition)