Home Sweet Home
Dom dobry
- Poland
- 2025
- 107'
- From Poland
- Bella Woman
- Year of Filmmakers of Kujawy and Pomerania
Gośka meets Grzesiek online and quickly finds him to be her soul mate. The man is greatly fond of her, showers her with gifts, and their affection for one another grows with the speed of light. The final stroke of brush on this romantic picture is Grzegorz proposing to Gośka on a boat in Venice. The beginning is nothing short of ideal. But the perfect image sees the first cracks quite soon. Seemingly trivial tensions turn into a chain of never-ending grudges, acts of manipulation, and playing on guilt. There is more and more aggression between them, and finally violence comes into the picture in all forms: mental, physical, and economic. The home that promised to become a safe haven for Gośka is now her greatest dread. Known for taking uncompromising and realistic perspective on social issues, Wojciech Smarzowski delivers a poignant picture of domestic violence and the mechanisms that set it in motion. He is meticulous in showing how difficult it becomes to free oneself of a toxic relationship, while at the same time stirring up a serious public debate and shattering the taboo around the topic.
- Directed by: Wojciech Smarzowski
- Screenplay: Wojciech Smarzowski
- Photography: Paweł Tybora
- Music: Mikołaj Trzaska
- Cast: Agata Turkot, Tomasz Schuchardt, Agata Kulesza, Maria Sobocińska, Łukasz Gawroński
- Producers: Wojciech Gostomczyk, Janusz Hetman
- Production: Lucky Bob
A film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, born in 1963, in Korczyn. He is a graduate of the Film and TV Direction Department at the Film School in Łódź, and film studies at the Jagiellonian University. He is considered to be one of the most important and uncompromising filmmakers of the contemporary Polish cinema. In many of his films, for example ‘Wesele / The Wedding,’ ‘Dom zły / The Dark House,’ ‘Wołyń / Hatred,’ or ‘Kler / Clergy,’ he touches on difficult social issues, stripping bare the mechanisms that lead to violence, hypocrisy and collective trauma. His unique film style is distinguished by realism, rawness, and in-depth analysis of human behaviour.
- 2025 – Dom dobry / Home Sweet Home
- 2021 – Wesele
- 2018 – Kler / Clergy
- 2016 – Wołyń / Hatred
- 2014 – Pod Mocnym Aniołem / The Mighty Angel
- 2012 – Drogówka / Traffic Department
- 2011 – Róża / Rose
- 2009 – Dom zły / The Dark House
- 2004 – Wesele / The Wedding
