Pokot

Spoor
Director
Agnieszka Holland
Country
Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia
Year
2017
Genre
Comedy, Crime
Scriptwriters
Olga Tokarczuk, Agnieszka Holland. Based on a novel “Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead” by an acclaimed Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk.
Cast
Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal
Production
TOR FILM PRODUCTION, NUTPRODUKCE, AJOUR, FILM AND MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED, Heimatfilm (DE)
http://www.tor.com.pl/film,51005

Storyline

Janina Duszejko, a former engineer, an astrologist and vegetarian, lives in a small picturesque village in the Sudeten Mountains. One night, she stumbles on the dead body of a neighbour. The poacher died a mysterious death. There are traces of roe deer hooves around his house…
In time, dead bodies of the local VIPs are discovered. All of them were hunters. Duszejko tries to convince the local police force that they were murdered by wild animals. As another VIPs is found dead, Duszejko becomes the main suspect. When the local parish house burns down and the priest and chaplain of the local hunting association dies in flames, the police are almost certain who did it…
This subtly humorous story of friendship, love of nature and vengeance, with unique, ambiguous characters will be a mixture of high-end and low-end genres from psychological drama to pastiche-like detective story.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2017
Competition
Winner: Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017
Czech Films 2016–2017
BFI London Film Festival 2017
Debate

European Film Awards (EFA) 2017
Selected
Winner: European Costume Designer (Katarzyna Lewinska)

Releases

Spain (10 of November 2017)