Winter of the Crow
Zima pod znakiem Wrony
- Poland, Luxembourg, Great Britain
- 2025
- 112'
- From Poland
On 12th December 1981, Joan Andrews, British professor of psychiatry, arrives in Warsaw to participate in an international conference. She is picked up at the airport by Alina, a young doctoral student, who drives her straight to the venue where the event is to take place. When giving her speech, the professor is interrupted by a political protest. After a banquet, Alina takes Joan to a flat in the district of Ursynów and promises to pick her up the following day. When she fails to arrive at the agreed time or even call her, Professor Andrews realises that things got out of control. Looking out the window, she sees tanks. Martial law is declared in Poland. Joan Andrews begins her surreal journey through Warsaw, a city now in paralysis. Alienated and completely lost, Joan struggles to find herself in the strange reality only to be involved in a dangerous spy-like game. The film ‘Winter of the Crow’ is an evocative historic drama combining a personal perspective and the suspense of a political thriller, in which we can observe a pivotal point in history through the eyes of an outsider.
- Directed by: Kasia Adamik
- Screenplay by: Sandra Buchta, Kasia Adamik, Lucinda Coxon
- Cinematography: Tomasz Naumiuk PSC
- Editing: Andonis Trattos
- Music: Emre Sevindik
- Producers: Olga Chajdas, Stanisław Dziedzic, Katarzyna Ozga, Nicolas Steil, Samantha Taylor
- Cast: Lesley Ann Manville, Tom Burke, Zofia Wichłacz, Andrzej Konopka, Magdalena Smalara, Jakub Guszkowski, Miron Jagniewski
- Production: Poland / Luxembourg / Great Britain
A film director, screenwriter, and producer from Poland. She works in film, television, and also in international co-productions. She worked for numerous foreign film productions, including ‘Total Eclipse,’ ‘Washington Square,’ or ‘Hearts in Atlantis.’ She debuted as a film director with the film ‘Bark!’ (2002) screened in one of the competition at Sundance Film Festival. Among her most important film productions, there is ‘Boisko bezdomnych’ (2008) with numerous film festival awards, ‘Janosik: Prawdziwa historia / Janosik: A True Story’ (2009) and ‘Pokot / Spoor,’ both co-directed with Agnieszka Holland, and with the latter of the two winning the Silver Bear Award in Berlin. Kasia Adamik has also had an extensive experience with directing film series, for example ‘1983’ for Netflix, and several episodes for such television productions as ‘Wataha / The Pack,’ ‘Absentia,’ or ‘Krakowskie potwory / Cracow Monsters.’ Her film work clearly demonstrates a consistent progression toward more aspiring international film projects, with ‘Winter of the Crow’ being an excellent example of this approach.
