2016-09-25 15:52 update: 2018-09-30, 15:12
Reżyser filmu "Ostatnia rodzina" Jan Matuszyński (P) oraz aktorzy, odtwórcy głównych ról: Zdzisława Beksińskiego - Andrzej Seweryn (2P), Zofii Beksińskiej - Aleksandra Konieczna (2L) i Tomasza Beksińskiego - Dawid Ogrodnik (L) z nagrodą Złote Lwy za najlepszy film festiwalu. Fot. PAP/Adam Warżawa
"The Last Family" (Ostatnia rodzina) won the Golden Lions award for Best Film at the 41st Film Festival which ended in Gdynia (northern Poland) on Saturday evening.
Andrzej Seweryn won the Best Actor award for his handling of a highly demanding role of controversial Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski in director Jan P. Matuszynski's fiction-feature debut. Aleksandra Konieczna won the Best Actress prize for playing Beksinski's wife.
The Last Family is a chronicle of the last 28 years in the life of Poland's apocalyptic surrealist painter Zdzislaw Beksinski. It also gives considerable prominence to his long-suffering wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, whose hypersensitive and unnerving personality gives his mother constant cause for concern.
"The Last Family" also received the Audience Prize.
The Silver Lions went to Maciej Pieprzyca's "I Am a Killer" (Jestem morderca), a psychological thriller inspired by a police hunt for a serial killer in the early 1970s, and Tomasz Wasilewski won the Best Director award for "United States of Love" (Zjednoczone stany milosci).
A special award was granted to Polish Oscar winner Andrzej Wajda, whose new film "Afterimage" (Powidoki) was presented during a special screening.
The Platinum Lions, a lifetime achievement award, went to director Janusz Majewski. (PAP)
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