Polish Post is the media patron of the film "FILIP"
On March 3rd, the film adaptation of Leopold Tyrmand's novel "FILIP" will be released in cinemas across Poland. Poczta Polska is a patron of this film, which has already won the Silver Lion at the 47th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
The film takes place in 1943 in Frankfurt. The titular character, Filip, is a typical cosmopolitan and a seducer incapable of deeper feelings. He lost his entire family in Poland. Alone in the heart of Nazi Germany, he conceals his Jewish heritage and repeatedly evades death. He works as a waiter in the restaurant of an exclusive hotel, carefreely enjoying the pleasures of life surrounded by luxury, beautiful women, and friends from all over Europe. When the war begins to take its bloody toll on those closest to him, the intricately constructed world around him crumbles like a house of cards.
The film doesn't erect monuments to war heroes. It depicts antiheroes who simply wanted to survive – without patriotic pathos, ordinary, full of fears and doubts.
This isn't a war film. It's a study of a lonely, alienated man suffering from trauma. Filip was supposed to be an architect, but fate has decreed that he's a waiter. How many such people are there today? Refugees from Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan... World War II is merely the setting, the setting for this film's story. The protagonist's psychological and moral struggle is crucial, and Filip shows us that it can be universal, regardless of the time frame of the plot.
The film, directed by Michał Kwieciński, stars Eryk Kulm Jr. in the title role, alongside Sandra Drzymalska, Robert Więckiewicz and young European actors: Victor Meutelet, Caroline Hartig and Zoe Straub.
