FLORIDA PREMIERE
Warsaw, 1941. The body of a beautiful young woman, the wife of a prominent lawyer, is found in a pool of blood on the couple’s kitchen table. Investigating the case, a Polish police detective is led to the Nazi-occupied city’s underworld, where fake identities, corruption and sex create a menacing and dangerously seductive atmosphere. Fusing classic film noir motifs with a disconcerting vision of a sieged city, Black Mercedes is a wholly unique whodunit murder mystery.
The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.
Warning: film contains nudity and scenes of a sexual nature.
Director: JANUSZ MAJEWSKI
Director and screenwriter. Born in 1931 in Lviv. Graduate of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology (1955) and Directing at the Film School in Łódź (1961). He started his career as art director. In the years 1983-1990, he was the President of Polish Filmmakers Association and in the years 1987-1991 – Member of the Cinematography Committee. Since 2001, the President of the Management Board of the Association of Authors and Composers ZAIKS. Professor of film art. In 2002, on the occasion of the 50 anniversary of the Polish Television, he received the “Star of the Polish Television” statuette for his achievements in film and the Television Theatre. Awarded with the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011). Recipient of many prestige awards.
Sponsored By Nina & Martin Rosenzweig
- Year2019
- Runtime117 minutes
- LanguagePolish, German w/Subtitles
- CountryPoland, Spain
- PremiereFlorida
- DirectorJanusz Majewski
- ScreenwriterWlodzimierz Kowalewski, Janusz Majewski
- CastMaria Debska, Aleksandar Milicevic, Artur Zmijewski, Andrzej Zielinski
FLORIDA PREMIERE
Warsaw, 1941. The body of a beautiful young woman, the wife of a prominent lawyer, is found in a pool of blood on the couple’s kitchen table. Investigating the case, a Polish police detective is led to the Nazi-occupied city’s underworld, where fake identities, corruption and sex create a menacing and dangerously seductive atmosphere. Fusing classic film noir motifs with a disconcerting vision of a sieged city, Black Mercedes is a wholly unique whodunit murder mystery.
The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.
Warning: film contains nudity and scenes of a sexual nature.
Director: JANUSZ MAJEWSKI
Director and screenwriter. Born in 1931 in Lviv. Graduate of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology (1955) and Directing at the Film School in Łódź (1961). He started his career as art director. In the years 1983-1990, he was the President of Polish Filmmakers Association and in the years 1987-1991 – Member of the Cinematography Committee. Since 2001, the President of the Management Board of the Association of Authors and Composers ZAIKS. Professor of film art. In 2002, on the occasion of the 50 anniversary of the Polish Television, he received the “Star of the Polish Television” statuette for his achievements in film and the Television Theatre. Awarded with the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011). Recipient of many prestige awards.
Sponsored By Nina & Martin Rosenzweig
- Year2019
- Runtime117 minutes
- LanguagePolish, German w/Subtitles
- CountryPoland, Spain
- PremiereFlorida
- DirectorJanusz Majewski
- ScreenwriterWlodzimierz Kowalewski, Janusz Majewski
- CastMaria Debska, Aleksandar Milicevic, Artur Zmijewski, Andrzej Zielinski
