30 Door Key (1991)

Director:

Jerzy Skolimowski

Writers:

Jerzy Skolimowski (scenario) and
Józef Skolimowski (scenario) ...
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Release Date:

21 February 1992 (Poland)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. |

Plot Keywords:

Adult As Child | Digit In Title | Poland | Surrealism | Teacher

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Iain Glen	...	Joey
Robert Stephens	...	Prof. Pimco
Crispin Glover	...	Mintus
Judith Godrèche	...	Zoo
Fabienne Babe	...	Sophie
Tadeusz Lomnicki	...	Uncle
Marek Probosz	...	Syphonus
Artur Zmijewski	...	Kopyrda
Dorota Stalinska	...	Mrs. Young
Jan Peszek	...	Mr. Young
Beata Tyszkiewicz	...	Aunt
Zbigniew Zamachowski	...	Tom
Jerzy Skolimowski	...	Headmaster
Krzysztof Janczar	...	Leo
Marta Pieta	...	Marion
Nicolette McKenzie
Liza Ross
Marise Hepworth
Jill Schilling
Maria Warburg
Magdalena Wójcik	...	Servant
Beata Pozniak	...	Flora Gente
Kalina Jedrusik	...	Proffesor's wife
Malgorzata Potocka
Douglas Blackwell
Jan Thompson
Michael Sarne		(as Michael Sarne)
Alan McMahon
Robert Rietty		(as Robert Rietti)
Sean Barrett
Jamie Glover
Rupert Degas
Stephen Garlick
Cassian Degas
Sean Chapman
Michal Pawlicki
Henryk Bista
Jerzy Binczycki	...	Prof. Filidor
Jan Pietrzak
Artur Barcis
Dariusz Gnatowski	...	Pyzo
Grzegorz Grzywacz
Ryszard Kluge
Grzegorz Kulikowski
Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski
Wlodzimierz Musial
Iwona Pachonska
Jolanta Pankowska
Andrzej Pankowski
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
Warszawski Teatr Pantomimy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pawel Bawolec	...	Fizz

Directed by
Jerzy Skolimowski

Writing credits
Jerzy Skolimowski		(scenario) and
Józef Skolimowski		(scenario) (as Joseph Kay) and
Michal Skolimowski		(scenario) (as John Yorick)
Witold Gombrowicz		(based on the novel by)
Michael Sarne		(scenario consultant) (as Mike Sarne)

Produced by
Philippe Carcassonne	....	executive producer
Jerzy Skolimowski	....	producer

Original Music by
Stanislas Syrewicz

Cinematography by
Witold Adamek

Film Editing by
Marek Denys
Grazyna Jasinska-Wisniarowska		(as Grazyna Jasinska)

Production Design by
Andrzej Przedworski
Janusz Sosnowski

Costume Design by
Ewa Krauze

Makeup Department
Anne-Marie Demeur	....	key makeup artist
Jolanta Jagodzinska	....	makeup artist
Grazyna Kula	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Brigitte Faure	....	production manager
Józef Jarosz	....	production manager
Laurent Lesieur	....	production manager
Andrzej Polec	....	production manager
Kazimierz Rozwalka	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Zbigniew Gruz	....	assistant director
Monika Skowronska	....	assistant director

Art Department
Wieslawa Chojkowska	....	set dresser
Ryszard Grzegory	....	props
Tadeusz Koldyj	....	props
Zenon Wilk	....	props

Sound Department
Richard King	....	sound mixer
Mariusz Kuczynski	....	sound
Jerzy Szawlowski	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Krzysztof Strabski	....	assistant camera
Isabelle Weingarten	....	still photographer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Maria Wilun	....	costume supervisor

Music Department
Krzesimir Debski	....	conductor
Krzesimir Debski	....	music arranger
Michal Lorenc	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Marine Guez	....	production assistant
Miroslaw Mentcel	....	titles
Marek Rudnicki	....	production assistant
Maria Telenkiewicz	....	production secretary

Production Companies

• Million Frames
• Ciné@ (as Cinéa)
• MM Potocka Productions (in cooperation with)
• Komitet Kinematografii (in association with)
• Ministère de la Culture (in association with)
• Telewizja Polska (TVP) (in association with)
• Canal+ (in association with)
• Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC) (in association with)

Distributors

• Asociace Ceských Filmových Klubu (ACFK) (Czech Republic)
• Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)

Also Known As:

"Ferdydurke" - Poland (imdb display title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Poland | UK | France

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Company:

Million Frames

"Yummy Yummy Yama" ...sorry, how can i phrase this? I can't. Good try, though

I recently obtained a rather low-quality version of this film under its alternate title, "30 door key". At first, I was not quite sure what to expect- seeing Crispin Glovers name on the opening credits and all, but I knew whatever it was going to be, at least it would be memorable. And it truly was, in the best most surreal of ways (I am a huge fan of all or most things in that dying surrealists view). This film focuses in the 1940's around a man, who is our main character, who has long since reached his adulthood, yet in the first five minutes of the film is visited by an old teacher of his, evoking long since buried feelings of misworth in his intimidating surity and presence. His old teacher as arrogant as he had chosen not to remember up until this point, repremands the main character into attending a re-education school of sorts, to learn to write and be mature- that everything he had worked towards was suddenly dismissed as a pipedream illusiory success (don't ask me, you have to dismiss belief for the primary of this film). He goes to a school filled with grown adult school children, where there are the bullys and the bullied, the ego competition just as in reality, only now over the most obscure lesser thought of practices. Crispin Glover plays an at first arrogant, but eventually likable anti-establishment man-boy who befriends the main character and acts as a catalyst to what the main charcter looks towards to get more in touch with the spirit of living, which was a more free reflection on his former self. Its all very difficult to explain in the strictest sense, but the movie goes on- and I will not spoil it for anyone- too many different points and twists to name here, but this was a very fun film to watch. All the performances are excellent, and I could not reccomend this film more. It sounds so forced typing it out, but I thought I should at least try, as my subjects title states. final word, all in all: I leave you with a great big huge "woo" to let it all settle in good with you.