Planet Kirsan
Planeta Kirsan, Poland, 2010, 50 min, Digi Beta, Arts and Culture, Creative, Portrait, Society
13-year old Alehan and his brother Amir spend several hours everyday hunched over a chessboard. It’s his biggest dream to become the next World Chess Champion. The first step on the way to become a grandmaster is a tournament in Chess-City. The event. Full of young players, allows us to see the actors and creators as well as expose the mechanisms behind the Kalmykian chess fairytale. For Alehan it’s a chance to examine his dreams more closely. Ilyumzhinov’s revolution was supposed to transform the whole republic, but can it even change the life of just one small boy?
Director:
Magdalena Pieta
Producer:
Krzysztof Kopczyński
Original idea:
Magdalena Pieta
Screenplay:
Magdalena Pieta
Director of photography:
Michal Popiel-Machnicki
Editor:
Mateusz Romaszkan
Co Producer:
Witold Bedkowski
?:
Aleksandra Derewienko
World Sales:
Katarzyna Wilk
Music:
Anna Widermanska
Languages:
Russian
Subtitles:
English
Eureka Media
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03-410 Warsaw, Poland
TVP S.A. - Telewizja Polska
ul. J.P. Woronicza 17
00-999 Warsaw, Poland
TVP S.A. - Telewizja Polska
ul. J.P. Woronicza 17
00-999 Warsaw, Poland
Journeyman Pictures
4 High Street
KT7 0RY Thames Ditton, Surrey, United Kingdom
Krakow Film Foundation
Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Krakow, Poland
Young Cinema Prize for the most promising documentary debut -
Polish Film Festival in America, 2010, Chicago, USA
FULL FRAME Documentary Film Festival 2011, USA
51st Krakow Film Festival, 2011, Poland
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011, United Kingdom
Cronograf, 2011, Moldova
Best Polish Film Award -
HumanDoc IFF 2011, Warsaw, Poland
Docudays UA 2012, Ukraine
Polish Film Institute; Media Developmnet Fund; Institute of Adam Mickiewicz; European Union Programme „Media 2007”