Script and direction: Iwona Pasinska
Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff "Die Toteninsel" (Island of the dead/The Isle of dead") Op. 29, conducted by: Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by: Philadelphia Ochestra
Performed and co-performed by: Sandra Szatan and Zbigniew Kocięba, dancers of the Polish Dance Theater, and guest artists:Róża Gulik, Genowefa Jóźwiak, Alicja Lisiak-Osińska and Rosalia Lakatosz
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Photographs: Marek Grabowski
Montage: Natalia Jacheć
.Set selection and costumes: Andrzej Grabowski
.Post-production and color correction: Felix Miroslaw Mamczur
Costume assistant: Adriana Cygankiewicz
Set manager: Monika Zembrzycka
Camera operator A: Marek Grabowski
.Camera operator B: Felix Miroslaw Mamczur
Cinematographer's assistant/sharpener: Michal Lesniewski
Operator of set: Dariusz Szych, Michal Stenzel, Dzianis Mandzik
Production: Polish Dance Theater - Cultural Institution of the Self-Government of the Wielkopolska Region
.Like the original, both Arnold Böcklin's painting and Rachmaninoff's music were created out of the need of the heart. Out of longing.
This is, on the one hand, a dark fairy tale touching every note of our lives. On the other, an art-house folk horror - painful and sincere, yet steeped in hope. For even though we are heading in one direction, a vision shines through , that someone out there is waiting for us.
.Sylvester Sadowski
Link to the choreographic film project "Island of the Dead" on YT
Link to the choreographic film project "Island of the Dead" on Vimeo
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Polish Dance Theater would like to thank the District Infrastructure Management Board in Wroclaw, the 4th Military Economic Detachment in Gliwice, and the 10th Opole Logistic Brigade for lending the land within St. Anne's Mountain located in the municipality of Lesnica
for the production of the film.
