Screenplay:
Andrzej ZulawskiComposer:
Andrzej KorzyńskiCast:
Sebastian Fabijański, Eryk Kulm, Jasmina Polak, Katarzyna Chojnacka, Sebastian Pawlak, Andrzej Chyra, Żaneta Palica, Borys Szyc, Marta Zmuda Trzebiatowska (more)Plots(1)
Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics. Andrzej Żuławski's script accentuates the degradation of intelligence, which, surrounded by contempt for knowledge, rudeness and stupidity, chooses its own sort of splendid isolation. This radical artistic experiment that tells the story of a rejected communist combines the energy of Snow White and Russian Red with the anarchic atmosphere of Chaos. A genuine stylistic tour de force that, on the way to its ecstatic finale, evokes ghosts of scenes, characters and the aura of films like Native Dancer, Possession, The Devil and The Third Part of the Night. It is hard to imagine a greater tribute to the man who made them - or a more beautiful film letter to a father. (New Horizons International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Paweł Mandziewski
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
![Konrad Skolimowski](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/767/167767478_podsey.png)
Konrad Skolimowski
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Konrad Pasik
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Kaja Wróblewska
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Karolina Czyż
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Agata Sacewicz
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Paweł Kugel
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Mikołaj Matczak
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Love Tasting (2020)
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Olaf Marchwicki
Poland
Best movies:
Clergy (2018)
Letters to Santa (2011)
Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
Anna Krzyżanowska
Poland
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
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Marcin Mroczek
Poland
Best movies:
Army of Valhalla (2003)
Bird Talk (2019)
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Rafał Mroczek
Poland
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Wojciech Biedron
Poland
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Bird Talk (2019)
Anna Maria Kosik
Poland
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
Michał Kościuk
Poland
Best movies:
Bird Talk (2019)
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Alicja Jachiewicz
Poland
Best movies:
Generał Nil (2009)
Forgotten Love (2023)
Dobří holubi se vracejí (1988)
![Barbara Garstka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/072/165072562_0c2d12.png)
Barbara Garstka
Poland
Best movies:
Blindness (2016)
The Top Floor (2013)
All My Friends Are Dead (2020)
Danuta Borsuk
Poland
Best movies:
Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz (2019)
Rezerwat (2007)
The Land (2020)
Katarzyna Radochońska
Poland
Best movies:
Letters to Santa (2011)
Facing Up (2005)
Bird Talk (2019)
Katarzyna Trzcińska
Poland
Best movies:
The Debt (1999)
Złoto dezerterów (1998)
Bird Talk (2019)