Directed by: Wojciech Marczewski
Script: Wojciech Marczewski,
based on a novel by Pawel Huelle
Cinematography: Krzysztof Ptak
Music: Zbigniew Preisner
Producer: Iwona Ziolkowska
Cast: Marek Kondrat (Pawel), Krystyna Janda (Elka),
Juliane Kohler (Juliana), Teresa Marczewska (Judge),
Zbigniew Zamachowski (Kolota),
Krzysztof Globisz (Szymek), Janusz Gajos (Owner)

About movie

Summer 1967: 12-year-old kids, Pawel, Piotr, Szymek, and Elka, meet a fascinating, mysterious Jewish boy. David Weiser opens for them a new world – of miracles and mystique. He is scheming something unusual. However, at the very last moment an accidental explosion occurs. Weiser disappears without a trace and despite investigation neither his body nor his clothes can be found.
The year is 2000: Pawel Heller comes back from Germany to his home town. Pawel still cannot forget Weiser's baffling disappearance. Who was this boy? Was the disappearance just another of his tricks? Or was there something more sinister behind it? The long forgotten past comes back to him with magical force.

Awards:

Three “Eagles” (Polish Film Awards), for best pictures, best editing, and best sound. Nominated for Golden Berlin Bears, Berlin International Film Festival, 2001.

Wojciech Marczewski

Born: 1944, Lodz. Film and television director and screenwriter. Studied history and philosophy at the Lodz University. The Lodz Film School graduate. Professor in film schools in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Lodz and Katowice. He ran the Film Directing Faculty at the National Film and TV School in London (1992-94.)

1968 The Lesson of Anatomy (Lekcja anatomii);
1969 Travelers Like Any Others (Podrozni jak inni), tv film;
1970-72 Departures, Comebacks (Odejscia, powroty), tv series;
1975 Easter (Wielkanoc), tv film.;
1976 Whiter Than Snow (Bielszy niz snieg), tv film;
1978 Nightmares (Zmory), Silver Lions at PFF Gdansk,
OCIC Award at San Sebastian IFF;
1979 Steward (Klucznik), tv film
1981 Shivers (Dreszcze)
1990 Escape from the “Freedom” Cinema (Ucieczka z kina Wolnosc), Golden Lions at PFF Gdansk, Grand Prix at IFFF Burgos ‘94
1997 The time of Betrayal (Czas zdrady), Special Jury Award at PFF Gdynia;
2000 Weiser