Fall 2021—Wednesday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Back Then
Zupa Nic
2021, 94 minutes
Directed and written by: Kinga Dębska
Cast: Kinga Preis, Adam Woronowicz, Ewa Wiśniewska, Barbara Papis, Alicja Warchocka, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Milena Lisiecka, Dorota Landowska
Description
Back Then is a new enormously funny comedy by the internationally-acclaimed film director Kinga Dębska. The film is set in early 1980s and follows Marta, a romantic who is bullied at school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and their grandma, who tells her insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. Martha’s father is an academic, who is constantly humiliated by the system, while her mother is the leader of her workplace “Solidarity” trade union, with a need for freedom and a dream of finally making it out of Poland. The real emotional turmoil starts once a dream orange Fiat appears in front of their apartment. It will turn out to be an unexpected catapult to the big world—the world opens up…
“With this film, I would like to remind ourselves and the audience what we enjoyed when we were children...We had a very special childhood that shaped us one way and no other. Let's take a look at the lives of our parents and notice how much of them is in us” Dębska, FilmNewEurope.com
Following the Screening
Q&A session with Director Kinga Dębska and Producer Zbigniew Domagalski.