User:Aniaciszewska03/Silent Night (Polish film)

Silent Night – polish narrative film released in 2017, written and directed by Piotr Domalewski. It stars Dawid Ogrodnik, Tomasz Ziętek, Arkadiusz Jakubik i Agnieszka Suchora. Director of photography: Piotr Sobociński jr. It was set to premiere on September 21, 2017 on Gdynia Film Festival and later in cinemas on November 24, 2017.

Plot
It's December 24, Christmas Eve. Adam (Dawid Ogrodnik), who is in his twenties, and who has worked in Holland for some time now, unexpectedly comes home for Christmas to his hometown in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Originally he avoids telling family members his real reason for arriving but later on he starts to putting them into picture. The key roles play his dad (Arkadiusz Jakubik), his brother (Tomasz Ziętek), with whom Adam is in conflict and his sister together with her husband (Maria Dębska i Tomasz Schuchardt). The situation becomes even more complicated when Adam announces that he is going to be a father. Just then, according to Polish tradition, during the supper they drink alcohol. Nobody can prefigure how great impact on their lives will the next events during this night have.

Cast

 * Dawid Ogrodnik – Adam
 * Tomasz Ziętek – Paweł, Adam's brother
 * Arkadiusz Jakubik – Zbigniew, Adam's father
 * Agnieszka Suchora – Teresa, Adam's mother
 * Amelia Tyszkiewicz – Kasia, Adam's younger sister
 * Maria Dębska – Jolka, Adam's older sister
 * Tomasz Schuchardt – Marcin, Jolka's husband
 * Paweł Nowisz – Adam's grandfather
 * Elżbieta Kępińska – Adam's grandmother
 * Adam Cywka – Jurek, Adam's uncle
 * Jowita Budnik – Basia, Adam's aunt
 * Mateusz Więcławek – Jacek, Adam's cousin
 * Katarzyna Domalewska – Ania, Adam's cousin
 * Magdalena Żak – Gośka, Adam's cousin
 * Milena Staszuk – Aśka, Adam's fiancée

Rewards
The film won seven awards in 42nd Gdynia Film Festival. In the main competition it won the prize for the best film Złote Lwy and the best leading actor (for Dawid Ogrodnik).