Andrzej Wajda, film director (source: Wikipedia)

Entitled Sweet Rush, it is an intimate, psychological film based on a short story by the famous 20th-century Polish writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.

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It is not for the first time that Wajda was inspired by Iwaszkiewicz’s prose, if only to recall his Birchwood and the Oscar-nominated Ladies of Wilko. Sweet Rush tells the story of Marta, a middle-aged woman, the wife of small town doctor, unaware of her terminal illness. One day she meets a young man, Bogus, and is fascinated by his youth and simplicity. Their innocent ‘dates’ at the river banks, marked by mutual fascination, are put to an end by a sudden and cruel twist of fate: it is Bogus who dies first, drowning, entangled in the roots of the sweet rush he was carrying for her.

The fictitious story of Sweet Rush is intertwined with real-life monologues of Krystyna Janda, the actress playing the role of Marta, about the premature death of her husband, the acclaimed cinematographer Edward Klosinski. The main male character of Bogus is played by Pawel Szajda, an American actor of Polish descent.

At 83, Andrzej Wajda says working on the set keeps him going. His plans include films about Chopin, to tie in with the composer’s birth bicentenary next year, and Lech Walesa, one of the heroes of Poland’s road to freedom.