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The film’s director (and actor) Jerzy Stuhr stars as Zygmunt Sawicki, and ordinary bank clerk in a small Polish town, who awakens one morning to discover a camel outside his kitchen window. As he and his wife (Anna Dymna) grow increasingly fond of their remarkable pet, the animal evokes their neighbour’s jealousy… and greed. Although the Sawickis are determined to protect their cherished friend, the townspeople and local bureaucrats seem bent on exploiting the great beast. THE BIG ANIMAL is a charming fairy tale for grownups – a wise and cautionary parable about tolerance that is at once funny, compassionate and heart warming.
Awards: 7 wins and 3 nominations, including the Jury’s Special Prize at the Golden Knight Festival in Tambov ( Russia), Grand Prix at the Goest International Film Festival in Wiesbaden 2001 and Emerging Master Award for Jerzy Stuhr at the 27 th Seattle International Film Festival.
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The Oscar-laureate Andrzej Wajda’s film tribute to the memory of his father, a Polish Army officer, killed in Katyn, and of his mother, who all her life waited for her husband to return home. The crime on thousands of Polish Officers, shot by the Soviet authorities in the spring of 1940 in the Katyn forest, is for the first time the subject of a feature movie. A powerful historical drama presents the never told truth about this murder which has haunted the Polish history ever since and about its political consequences. The movie primarily focuses on the stories of women – mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of those who were killed in Katyn.
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Comedy Drama 
