LILPOP SISTERS AND THEIR PASSIONS
(SIOSTRY LILPOP I ICH MIŁOŚCI)



2005, 88 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Bozena Garus-Hockuba
SCRIPT:
Ewa Nawoj, Bozena Garus-Hockuba
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Jerzy Sobocinski
MUSIC:
various
EDITING:
Anna Krasowska
SOUND:
Tomasz Domanski
PRODUCERS:
Bozena Garus-Hockuba, Renata Lukasik
PRODUCTION:
BiS Film, TVP S.A.

The story of four Lilpop sisters from a well-known family in prewar Warsaw.They were, as writer Iwaszkiewicz put it,"highly interesting persons," and the same holds true for their husbands. This film, full of splendid archival footage, presents the lives of: Halina, the wife of the world famous conductor Artur Rodzinski; Felicja, the wife of the pianist and industrialist Kazimierz Krance; Aniela, the wife of Witold Mieczyslawski, a prewar Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then married to Edward Raczynski, the President of the Republic of Poland in-exile: and finally, Maria, the wife of the celebrated writer Zbigniew Unilowski. It is a portrayal of their more or less happy relationships. The love stories are conceived as the main, parallel motifs. At the same time, the biographies of the heroines are a pretext for depicting the environment of the Lilpop sisters.

Bozena Garus-Hockuba

Lives in Warsaw. Film director and producer of documentary films. Graduated from the French Literature at the Jagiellonian University (1977) and the Film & TV School at the University of Silesia in Katowice (film directing, 1988). Received her post-graduated diploma from the Departement des Civilisations, Central European University of Nancy, France (1982). She has made a number of awarded documentary films for Polish TV. Vice-President of BiS Film since 1998.

Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 3:30 pm. (SAM)