My Nikifor (Moj Nikifor) 20 years old
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
Credits
My Nikifor Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska She was 64, now 84 years old | as Nikifor's Housekeeper |
| Marian Dziędziel He was 56, now 77 years old | as Beekeeper Ferek |
| Jerzy Gudejko He was 46, now 66 years old | as Ryszard Nowak |
| Krystyna Feldman She was 88, 90 years old when she died | as Nikifor |
| Lucyna Malec She was 38, now 58 years old | as Hanna Wlosinska |
My Nikifor Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Dorota Roqueplo as Costume Design. She was 44 (now 64) years old | Costume & Make-Up |
| Krzysztof Ptak as Director of Photography. He was 50 (now 70) years old | Camera |
| Anna Wunderlich as Set Decoration. She was 50 (now 70) years old | Art |
| Magdalena Dipont as Production Design. | Art |
| Magdalena Dipont as Set Decoration. | Art |
| Juliusz Machulski as Producer. He was 49 (now 69) years old | Production |
| Krzysztof Krauze as Director. He was 51 (now 71) years old | Directing |
| Krzysztof Krauze as Writer. He was 51 (now 71) years old | Writing |
| Wojciech Danowski as Executive Producer. | Production |
My Nikifor (20 years)
- Release day: Thursday, July 29, 2004
- Runtime: 95 minutes