Poland

MY NIKIFOR
[Mój Nikifor]

In 1960s Poland, state-employed painter Marian hopes to parlay his artistic talent into a good position with the Party. Into his studio wanders Nikifor, an odd, possibly autistic ragamuffin who promptly begins touching up Marian's canvases. At first Marian finds Nikifor a minor nuisance, but in time he realizes that when it comes to painting, the funny little man is a towering genius. This acclaimed biopic of real-life outsider artist Nikifor Krynicki won Best Film and Director awards at 2005 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and Best Actress for Krystyna Feldman as Nikifor, in a triumphant cross-dressing performance à la Linda Hunt in THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY.

DIR/SCR Krzysztof Krauze; SCR Joanna Kos; PROD Juliusz Machulski. Poland, 2004, color, 100 min. In Polish with English subtitles.

Director Krzysztof Krauze was born in Warsaw in 1953 and graduated from the famed Lódz State Film School, Cinematography Faculty, in 1978. In addition to his awards for MY NIKIFOR, he also received Best Director and Best Screenplay for THE DEBT at the 2000 Polish Film Awards.

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