Filip
An unexpectedly sharp, jagged character study about a handsome young Polish Jew pretending to be French who works at a luxury hotel in Nazi-era Frankfurt as his carefully constructed and extravagant lifestyle gets turned upside-down by the thrust of history.
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Sunday, May 14, 2023
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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Monday, May 22 - Sunday, May 28, 2023
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In its bold focus on sensual pleasures and quality of life amid barbarity, Filip breaks every film cliché about the Nazi era and the Holocaust. In a wartime Frankfurt where horrors and trauma don't exclude the ecstasies and intrigues of the young, Filip (Eryk Kulm), a waiter at the city's top hotel, is a clandestine Jewish refugee from the Warsaw Ghetto whose life depends on the ruse that he is French. For foreign workers in race-mad Germany, fraternizing with Aryan women is punishable by death—and confident, seductive Filip violates this prohibition repeatedly, passionately, and brazenly. Luxe lighting, expressive camerawork, and period-perfect costumes offer a bracing contrast with an unexpectedly sharp character study of a man caught between the quest for survival and the hunger for action, intimacy, and self. As the story darkens, the question grows more pressing—what is truly at stake for Filip: pleasure, survival, or revenge?
- Director: Michal Kwiecinski
- Principal Cast: Eryk Kulm, Victor Meutelet, Caroline Hartig, Zoe Straub, Sandra Drzymalska
- Country: Poland
- Year: 2022
- Running Time: 120 min.
- Producer: Krystyna Swieca, Patryk Peridis, Michal Kwiecinski
- Screenplay: Michal Kwiecinski, Michal Matejkiewicz
- Cinematographers: Michal Sobocinski
- Editors: Nikodem Chabior
- Music: Robot Koch
- Awards: Gdynia Film Festival 2022 (Best Cinematography)
- Filmography: Love is Everything (2018), Bodo (2017)
- Language: Polish, German, Yiddish, French
- Has Subtitles: Yes