21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema Competition New Filmakers
HISTORIE MILOSNE

Poland   

Histórias de AmorFilm by a disciple of Kieslowski, consisting of four episodes that are interconnected by the same theme: love. A man aged 45 years is the protagonist of the stories and lives different relationships with women of several age brackets. In one of them, he is a professor that arouses the passion of one of his students. She declares her love and offers herself to him, which makes him very embarrassed. Without meaning to, he eventually causes her to be expelled from the school.

In another episode, a priest discovers he is father to a teenager and that she needs him a great deal. So much so that he abandons the Church for love of his daughter.

In the third story, a colonel lives peacefully with his wife until Tamara, a Russian whom he was madly in love with in the past, arrives on the scene. In spite of his professional and personal obligations, he is tempted to relive the great love of his life.

In the last episode, a man and his companion pass through a judicial dispute in which they mutually accuse each other. Between betrayal, fights, and reconciliation they perceive that they are, in fact, in love with each other. Another character runs through all of the stories: an unknown researcher who records all of the answers of the characters to his diverse questions.

 

     Director

DIRECTOR: Jerzy Stuhr
SCREENPLAY: Jerzy Stuhr
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Pawel Edelman
EDITION: Elzbieta Kurkowska
MUSIC: Adam Nowak
CAST: Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Fjgura, Dominika Ostalowska, Irina Alfiorowa
PRODUCER: Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Moczydlowski, Jacek Bromski
FESTIVALS: Veneza
PRODUCTION: Zebra Film Studio - 02-595 Varsóvia, ul. Pulawska 61 Tel.: 00 48 22 455484 Fax: 00 48 22 470936 Canal + Poland, Varsóvia, ul. Niedzwiedzia 10
Tel.: 00 48 22 471003
Fax: 00 48 22 470936
WORLD SALES: Zebra Film Studio - 02-595 Varsóvia, ul. Pulawska 61 Tel.: 00 48 22 455484 Fax: 00 48 22 470936; Canal + Poland, Varsóvia, ul. Niedzwiedzia 10
Tel.: 00 48 22 471003
Fax: 00 48 22
ORIGINAL TITLE: Historie Milosne
    Col., 87 min., 1997

Jerzy Stuhr

Jerry Stuhr was born in Krakowia in 1947. After he graduated in Philology by the Jagiellonian University, he decided to study theater. As from 1972, he has been working as actor in the theater and in the cinema in films such as The Scar, selection for the Twenty-First São Paulo International Film Festival, White by Krzysztof Kieslowski; Rough Treatment by Andrzej Wajda, and Provincial Actors by Agnieszka Holland.

He first started directing with The List of Adulteresses, 1994. Histórias de Amor is his second feature.