Do you recognize this country? It's Poland seen as "on acid." A melodramatically swollen moon rises over the rusted viaduct and a monstrous hamburger adorns a shabby restaurant. A neighborhood festival pulses among the concrete housing block units, whose main attraction is an aggressive disco-polo concert of imbecilic sexist hits. This is the world of Andrzej "Strong" Robakowski, who is an apoplectic brute and junkie, a thug. After a breakup, Strong wanders the neighborhood and experiences various adventures, or rather their pathetic and grotesque facsimiles. Xawery Żuławski's film is based on Dorota Masłowska's debut novel. Like the book, it is a satire of modern Poland, which appears on screen as a land of cheapness, rudeness and stupidity, one that is equally repulsive as it is strangely fascinating.
Born in 1971, Xawery Żuławski is a director and screenwriter. His Chaos (2006) received the award for the best directorial debut at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. In 2009, he made the acclaimed Snow White and Russian Red (Silver Lion winner at the Polish Film Festival) based on a book by Dorota Masłowska. He is a lecturer at the AMA Film Academy. His parents are director Andrzej Żuławski and actress Małgorzata Braunek.
2006 Chaos
2009 Wojna polsko-ruska / Polish-Russian War
2019 Mowa ptaków / Bird Talk