Fiction, 153′
Directed by: Xawery Żuławski
Production: Poland, 2024

The story of Jerzy and Helena Kulej, the most vibrant married couple of the 1960s in Poland. He is a legendary boxer, a two-time European and eight-time Polish champi- on, the only Polish boxer to have won two Olympic golds, and though never knocked out in the ring, collapsing many a times in his private life. She is a strong woman, always there by his side, but refusing to stay in his shadow forever. The film focuses on the 1964-68 period when Jerzy Kulej won gold at the Olympic Games in Tokyo only to repeat that feat in Mexico. It’s a multifaceted story of the sportsman’s successes on the ring and the colours of the era, but also a tale of the turbulent fate of the Kulejs’ marriage where great love was put to the test while trying to tackle a great success.

Written by: Rafał Lipski, Xawery Żuławski
Directed by: Xawery Żuławski
DOP: Marian Prokop
Editing: Wojciech Włodarski
Art directing: Marta Skajnowska
Costume design: Anna Englert
Make-up: Agnieszka Hodowana
Sound: Jarosław “Bodo” Bajdowski, Sebastian Witkowski, Mateusz Adamczyk
Music: Jan Komar, Mikołaj Majkusiak

Production management: Dagmara Bagnecka
Producer: Krzysztof Terej
Production company: Watchout Studio
Co-production company: Systemics Pab

Co-financed by Polish Film Institute 

Festival distribution: IKH Pictures Promotion

Tomasz Włosok
Michalina Olszańska
Tomasz Kot
Andrzej Chyra
Monika Mikołajczak
Bartosz Gelner
Konrad Eleryk

Polish Film Festival, Gdynia, Poland (2024) – Award for Best Make-up for Agnieszka Hodowana; Golden Kangaroo Award for Xawery Żuławski; ELLE Cristal Star Award for Tomasz Włosok

Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2024)

Camerimage International Film Festival, Poland (2024)

3KinoFilmFest, Czech Republic (2024)

Seattle Polish Film Festival, USA (2024)

FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany (2024)

Houston Polish Film Festival, USA (2024)

Pittsburgh Polish Film Festival, USA (2024)

Rochester Polish Film Festival, USA (2024)

Polish Film Festival in America, USA (2024)

EKRAN Toronto Polish Film Festival, Canada (2024)

Xawery Żuławski is a director, screenwriter and creative producer at Watchout Studio. He graduated from the Film and TV Directing Department of the Łódź Film School. His first feature-length film, Chaos, won the Best Directing Debut Award at the 2006 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia and the Great Amber Award at the 2007 Koszalin Debut Film Festival Young and Film. One of his greatest successes is a screen adaptation of Dorota Masłowska’s novel Snow White and Russian Red, for which he received awards, incl. the Silver Lions at the 2009 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. His film Bird Talk won the 2020 Golden Reel Award in the Polish Film category, and the Youth Jury Award at the 2019 Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. He received the Golden Claw Award at the festival in Gdynia for It Came from the Water.