{mosimage}Daas tells the story of a heretic Jackob Frank and the last period of his life spent in Vienna. Frank arrived in Poland in the second half of the 13th Century where he annouced himself to be the new Mesaiah. He used the apocalyptic mood of the era and convinced a part of the Jewish community and the Catholic Church hierarchy to convert to his beliefs.

The film is produced by ARGOMEDIA PRODUCTION Lambros Ziotas in co-production with Odra Film (www.odra-film.wroc.pl), WFF in Wrocław (www.wff.wroclaw.pl), Divizion Studio Filmowe (www.divizion.pl), Luks Film (www.luksfilm.pl) and Tom Tomasz Grzywacz. The producer of the film is Lambros Ziotas who told FNE that Daas was shot between Spetember and October 2010 in the Lower Silesia region and the coast of the Baltic Sea. The budget of the film is 3.8 million PLN (EUR 961,000) with 3 million PLN in financing from the Polish film Institiute (www.pisf.pl).

{mosimage}Daas is the feature film debut for Panek, a Polish filmmaker and screenwriter. A graduate of the Driecting Department at the University of Silesia and Andrzej Wajda Master School of Directing, Panek is an accomplished documentary, short film and music videos drector. In 2006 he created a short feature entitled Martydom of Marian as a part of the Debut30 program organized by PFI, SFP (www.sfp.org.pl) and TVP Kultura (www.tvp.pl). Panek also assisted Filip Bajon with his film Foundation and was the second director for the costume box office hit Maiden Vows. The first version of the script for Daas qualified in the final of the 2010 Hartley-Merril competition.

For his debut Panek managed to gather an all-star cast of Polish actors including Andrzej Chrya, one of the most praised male actors of the last decade, in the lead. He is accompanied by Magdalena Czerwińska, Ditto Berkley, Mariusz Bonaszewski and Olgierd Łukaszewicz. The director of photography was Arkadiusz Tomiak, an acocmplished cinematographer known for his work in Symetry by Kondrad Niewolski, Silence by Michał Rosa, Zero by Paweł Borowski and recently Mystification by Jacek Koprowicz.


{mosimage}Crew:

Director - Adrian Panek
Screenwriter - Adrian Panek
Cinematographer - Arkadiusz Tomiak
Music -ISSIDORS PAPADAKIS
Production Design - Dorota Dąbrowska
Sound - Piotr Domaradzki, Mirosław Makowski
Film Editing - Witold Chomiński
Costume Design - Barbara Sikorska-Bouffał
Production manager - Beata Osmelak-Kilian
Production company - ARGOMEDIA PRODUCTION Lambros Ziotas
Producer - LAMBROS ZIOTAS
Co-production - Odra Film, WFF in Wrocław, Divizion Studio Filmowe, Luks Film, Tom Tomasz Grzywacz
Executive Producer - ARGOMEDIA PRODUCTION Lambros Ziotas
Co-financing - Polish Film Institute

Cast:

Andrzej Chyra
Magdalena Czerwińska
Ditto Berkley
Mariusz Bonaszewski
Olgierd Łukaszewicz


Production Contacts:

Argomedia Production Lambros Ziotas
50-453 Wrocław, ul. Hercena 3-5
tel./fax. 71 337-37-38
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www.daas-film.pl
Official website of the film : www.daas-film.pl