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DEVILS DEVILS
(diably diably)
by Dorota Kedzierzawska
By the director of "CROWS". This was her first feature produced in 1991 and screened in Toronto at the Toronto International Film Festival. that year.
This delicate, ravishingly beautiful coming of age love story, set in rural Poland in the 1960s, follows Mala (Justyna Ciemny) in her search for first love, personal identity and freedom .
A band of Gypsies decends on a conservative and well ordered existence throwing the School Teacher, the Catholic Priest and the School Children into a state of excited confusion. Local authority is undermined when the children become enamoured with "the devils" and Mala and her boyfriend Grucha (Pawel Chwedoruk) fall under the magic of the Gypsies and begin to explore their awakening desires.
Devils Devils is the first international award winning debut feature by Dorota Kedzierzawska (CROWS) a major new woman director.
"Kedzierzawska's film is above all a highly visual cinematic poem... bold, imaginative visual strokes... an auspicious feature film debut."
Piers Handling, Director
The Toronto International Film Festival