Polish ‘Eagles’ film award nominations announced

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Wojciech Smarzowski’s Rose is on the running for 9 awards and Jan Komasa’s ‘Suicide Room has nominations in 8 categories.

All the above films are competing in two most respected categories, for Best Film and Best Director.

In Darkness is a Holocaust drama based on the true story of Leopold Socha, a Polish worker in Lvov who sheltered a group of Jews in the sewers of Nazi-occupied town. The film is nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film Category.

Rose is a powerful and moving story of love that is doomed to fail due to the highly complex realities of post-war Poland. Tadeusz, a former Homy Army officer, arrives in in the Mazurian Lake District, a former Polish-Prussian border area, and comes to a farm owned by Rose, whose husband, a Wehrmacht soldier, had been shot by his troops. Suspected to be a German, the woman is an outcast in her village. The man stands out in her defense.

Suicide Room is the story of Dominik, an ordinary boy who has everything – friends, the prettiest girl in school, rich parents who give him money for clothes, gadgets and parties. One day, a single kiss changes everything. ‘She’ finds him on the internet and introduces him to the ‘suicide room’, a place from which there is no escape. The boy becomes entangled in a deadly plot.

A total of 41 features were in the race for Polish Eagles. Voting is made by some 500 members of the Polish Film Academy in a secret ballot, supervised by PwC, the world’s top auditing and advisory firm.

The Polish Eagles awards will be announced on 5 March. (mk)