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THE REBOUND
(HEL)

dir. Kinga Dębska (2009, 84') Poland
in Polish with English subtitles



DIRECTION: Kinga Dębska
SCRIPT: Kinga Dębska
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Wojciech Staroń
ART DIRECTION: Marek Zawierucha
MUSIC: Marcin Kuczewski
EDITING: Ewa Różewicz
SOUND: Leszek Freund, Petr Čechak
PRODUCTION: Kalejdoscope Film Studio
PRODUCER: Zbigniew Domagalski

CAST:

Paweł Królikowski (Piotr), Anna Geislerova (Hanka), Lesław Żurek (Kamil), Magda Biegańska (Maria), Anna Gornostaj (Marta), Henryk Talar (Weiss), Bartosz Żukowski (Mały)

SYNOPSIS:

A confident directing debut from Kinga Debska, Hel takes us down the bottomless pit of drug addiction through its main character Piotr, a successful psychiatrist with a history of heroine addiction. Years since his last relapse, Piotr now juggles his stressful work at the hospital with maintaining his second marriage and re-connecting to his estranged son. Things seem to be going well on all fronts until one night Piotr has to treat a junkie in withdrawal, and is reminded of his old days. Debska follows the effects of Piotr's downward spiral, showing the inevitable dissolution of his relationships with those closest to him. A heart-wrenching film that shows the tragedy of a good man compelled to do wrong at the cost of everything he holds dear.

DIRECTOR:

KINGA DĘBSKA