SONATA

Written & directed: Bartosz Blaschke
Production: mediabrigade, Poland, 2021
Runtime: 118 min

Diagnosed as an autistic child, Grzegorz lives in his own, hermetic world not being able to connect with others. When he is a teenager, it turns out that the cause of Grzegorz’s isolation is not autism but a deep hearing impairment, underneath which a great musical talent has been hidden for years. Thanks to a hearing aid, Grzegorz starts to discover speech, sound, and music, in which he falls in love. Grzegorz now desires to become a pianist and perform at a great philharmonic concert hall. But no one, apart from him and his family, believes that this deaf boy – though aided with new technology – will ever make his dream come true.

A moving, authentic story of the musician Grzegorz Płonka from Murzasichle in the Tatra Mountains. It shows an incredible journey, burdened with huge effort and great struggle to achieve the impossible.

The film is the director’s feature-length debut.

Credits

Written and Directed by BARTOSZ BLASCHKE
Produced by SYLWESTER BANASZKIEWICZ, MARCIN KUREK
Cinematography by TOMASZ AUGUSTYNEK PSC
Music by KRZYSZTOF A. JANCZAK
Production Manager KAMIL JANIK

Cast

MICHAŁ SIKORSKI
MAŁGORZATA FOREMNIAK
ŁUKASZ SIMLAT
KONRAD KĄKOL
IRENA MELCER
JERZY STUHR

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Director's bio

Film director and screenwriter, graduate of Cinematography and Photography at the Radio and Television Department of the Uniwersytet Śląski in Katowice and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw; in 2021 he made his debut as the director and the screenwriter of the full-length feature film ‘Sonata’. He received two awards in the SCRIPT PRO competition: 2nd place for the script for the film „Sonata” in 2018 and 3rd place for the script ‘Felicja i Jezus’ (‘Felicity and Jesus’) in 2014.