Tomasz Bagiński, Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award winning Polish movie maker, is working on a new spectacular project. This time he and his team want to tell the story of the 1944 Warsaw Rising, when the heroic people of Warsaw tried to liberate Poland from under the cruel German Nazi occupation.
Joanna Najfeld presents
In 1944, five years after the German and Russian attack on Poland, the capital was under German Nazi occupation. With the Red Army approaching from the East, Warsaw residents made a desperate attempt at regaining independence on their own. On the 1st of August 1944, the Warsaw Rising broke out. Although it was very meticulously prepared, after 63 days of uneven fight, the heroic insurgents were forced to surrender. No allies ever came to the rescue of Poles. Germans murdered two hundred thousand civilians and about ten times less insurgents.
Hardkor44 is a full feature film telling the story of the Warsaw Rising in quite an unprecedented way. It will be an action film with elements of science fiction, lots of special effects and animation. The project is co-produced by the Warsaw-based Warsaw Rising Museum. Tomasz Bagiński is working on the Hardkor44 project with his colleagues at Platige Image, a leading Polish post-production studio specializing in computer graphics, 3D animation and special effects.
Hardkor44 is expected to be released in 2012. Another movie by Tomasz Bagiński, the Kinematograph, has just been selected to run in the International competition of short films at the 66th Venice Film Festival.