Polish actor Seweryn wins best actor award at Locarno
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
14.08.2016 11:55
Polish actor Andrzej Seweryn has won the award for best actor at this year's prestigious Locarno film festival.
Polish actor and director Andrzej Seweryn poses during a photocall after he received the prize for the best actor 'Pardo per la migliore interpretazione maschile ' for his movie 'Ostatnia Rodzina' (The Last Family) at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival. Photo: EPA/ALEXANDRA WEY
Seweryn played iconic real-life Polish painter Zdzislaw Beksiński in Ostatnia Rodzina (The Last Family).
The film largely focuses on the artist's relationship with his son Tomasz Beksiński, a music journalist and translator who committed suicide in 1995.
“The powerful and reflective portrait of Ostatnia rodzina has its cornerstone in [Seweryn], the lens through which to experience an eccentric family losing its center, which it never really had, day by day,” the Locarno film festival wrote in a statement.
“Seweryn is not only the main character but also the boatswain in a ship caught in a storm, a teacher in a microcosmos that in its weirdness hides the horror he sublimated in his masterpieces. And perhaps that same microcosmos has been infected by his works.” (rg)