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 poster
My Nikifor (20 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, July 29, 2004
  • Runtime: 95 minutes