NARRATIVE SHORT

FAITHFUL

Did die or didn’t he? An emotional thriller about infidelity.

A mysterious letter implicates a successful politician in a lengthy extramarital affair and sparks a conflict among three women: his wife, her sister and his alleged lover. Soon his unfaithfulness becomes marginal as the three women confront the limits of their own honesty while trying to uncover the truth.

Director’s statement

Faithfulness is an issue that we all have to contend with. Infidelity — as a spectre, fantasy or reality — is likewise an ever-present aspect of our lives. While we tend to think of ourselves as „faithful,” rarely do we ask what this really means. Faithful to whom? To what? And to what degree? Is one mostly faithful to oneself, to another person, to a belief, to a principle, to the truth? My film explores a situation in which different personal versions of faithfulness come into conflict. […]

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Marzena Grzegorczyk

PRODUCERS: Iwona Witowicz, Marzena Grzegorczyk

STARRING: Magdalena Cielecka, Danuta Stenka, Aleksandra Konieczna

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Patrick Kelly

EDITING: Barbara Stepansky, Sabine El Chamaa, Kuros Charney, Marzena Grzegorczyk

COMPOSER: Hanna Kulenty

RUNNING TIME: 17′

YEAR: 2002

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA