The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me

Słońce, to słońce mnie oślepiło

Meursault, the main character from The Stranger by Albert Camus, inciden­ tally enters a story he thought had ended and had no significance to him. He shoots at a man, at a lying corpse, at emptiness and becomes blinded by the sun. In the film, the moment of the killing is postponed for a moment by a vision of life in which responsibility for another person is taken. When standing over the Stranger, the main hero of the film must choose. The world starts to dawn on him with too great a force, and the fate of the Stranger becomes a burden. Providing a meaningful commentary on the refugee crisis and the wave of xenophobia that followed in its wake, this is another stunning work by Anka and Wilhels Sasnal – one of the most daring authorial tandems in contem­ porary cinema, namely Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal. The film draws inspiration from the cardinal work of existentialism, reinterprets it and uses its simple storyline as the vehicle for a profound analysis of the fear of everything strange.

  • Year:
    2016
  • Runtime:
    74 min.
  • Country:
    Poland, Switzerland
  • Director:
    Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal
  • Screenplay:
    Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal
  • Dir. of Photography:
    Wilhelm Sasnal
  • Music:
    Siekiera
  • Editor:
    Beata Walentowska
  • Cast:
    Rafał Maćkowiak, Edet Bassey, Małgorzata Zawadzka
  • Production:
    Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal, Hauser & Wirth, Fundacja Galerii Foksal
  • Sales:
    Balapolis
  • Festivals:
    Locarno 2016, Varšava /Warsaw 2016, Montréal 2016

Schedule:

13.11.2016 13:30 Kino Mladosť
16.11.2016 20:15 Kino Mladosť

About the Director:

Anka Sasnal

Anka Sasnal (1973, Busko–Zdrój, Poland) is a director, editor and scriptwriter. She studied Polish literature at Pedagogical University of Kraków and gender studies at Jagiellonian University in the same town. She lives and works in Kraków, Poland.

About the Director:

Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm Sasnal (1972, Tarnów, Poland) is a painter and filmmaker. He studied architecture at Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology in Kraków and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in the same town. He lives and works in Kraków, Poland