2019-04-15

We are very happy to inform that Tomasz Knittel’s film Mieczysław Karłowicz. Samotna wędrówka [Mieczysław Karłowicz. A Lone Journey], co-produced by PWM Edition and TVP (Polish state television broadcaster), won the Silver Pegasus during the gala of the 22nd Zakopane Festival of Films about Art held on 14th April.

Completed nearly two years ago, this documentary about the extraordinary Polish composer was premiered on 3rd May last year. The film is “an attempt to portray the beginnings of Polish symphonic music, mountaineering and artistic photography in Poland. This multi-layered and colourful movie presents the figure of Mieczysław Karłowicz, an eminent Polish composer who perished at the age of 33 during a climbing expedition in the Polish Tatra.” The story of this passionate man, full of curiosity about the world, is narrated by the people he met, who were the witnesses of his artistic work and his personal passions: inhabitants of the town of Zakopane, mountaineers, musicians, photographers, journalists, and scholars. The picture they present to us is one of a comprehensively educated artist, a great lover of the mountains and a pioneer of mountaineering in Poland.

You can watch excerpts from the film here.

We are grateful to all the production team and we WARMLY CONGRATULATE them on the well-deserved prize.