Award-winning director to helm WWII serial 'Krakau'

The director, who scooped a string of prizes for his 2012 movie 'Manhunt', a gritty portrayal of a unit of Polish resistance fighters, will be returning to familar territory for the project, which has the working title 'Krakau'.

The plot hinges on an extra-marital affair of a high-ranking Gestapo officer, with the action taking place in 1944.

According to the director, the series will be shot in the traditions of film noir, and besides Kraków, parts of the production will be filmed in Berlin.

Celebrated actor Robert Więckiewicz ('Wałęsa: Man of Hope', 'In Darkness') has been cast in one of the main roles, although it has not been disclosed whether he will play the Gestapo officer.

The script is based on a screenplay named 'Hauptsturmfuhrer', for which the director won the top prize at the Interscenario International Festival of Screenwriters in Wrocław in 2009.

Krzyształowicz grew up in Kraków and his father was an officer of the Home Army (AK), Poland's main wartime resistance force, which was loyal to the government-in-exile in London. (nh/rk)

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