Bird Talk

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.

• Xawery ŻuławskiDirector
• Andrzej ŻuławskiScreenplay
• Andrzej KorzyńskiOriginal Music Composer

• Sebastian FabijańskiMarian
• Eryk KulmJózef
• Jaśmina PolakAnia
• Katarzyna ChojnackaAla
• Sebastian PawlakLudwik
• Andrzej ChyraLucjan
• Żaneta PalicaFlorist Maria
• Borys SzycJakubiec
• Marta Żmuda-TrzebiatowskaJakubcowa
• Daniel OlbrychskiGustaw
• Michał GrudzińskiCast
• Monika NiemczykBiology Teacher