A Gingerbread Heart
…or a story showing that people are always rewarded by fate for being sensitive to the needs of others and providing unselfish help…
Directed by Anna Dudek
Screenplay and dialogues by Anna Dudek, Jacek Adamczak
/based on the tale by Kornelia Dobkiewiczowa/
Artwork and background by Anna Dudek
Music composed and performed by Arnold Dąbrowski
Layout by Leszek Budzelewski, Janusz Gałązkowski
Animation by Roman Frajczyk, Janusz Matusik, Roman Janeczko, Paweł Byrski, Elżbieta Kandziora, Ewa Rodewald, Lesław Budzelewski, Janusz Gałązkowski, Waldemar Szajkowski
Test-line, animatic by Anna Gałązkowska
Ink and paint by Alina Góral, Violetta Pawlewska, Elżbieta Bejger, Karolina Sobolewska, Mariola Olejniczak, Violetta Olejniczak, Hanna Cichowska
Compositing by Paweł Prewencki
Editing by Krzysztof Napierała
Sound by Jan Jakub Milencki
Dubbing directed by Dorota Kawęcka
Dubbing: Grzegorz Nawrocki, Marcel Groblewski, Agnieszka Kunikowska, Waldemar Barwiński, Andrzej Chudy, Jakub Jankiewicz, Bernard Lewandowski
Title sequences by Robert Turło
Title sequences music by Marek Kuczyński
Production manager: Mariola Olejniczak
Script-doctor: Katarzyna Komorowska, Maria Niedziółka
Executive Producer: Ewa Sobolewska
Producer, production: TV Studio Filmów Animowanych Sp. z o.o.
Co-producers: Telewizja Polska SA, Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny
Series co-financed by Polish Film Institute
Animacja 2D [drawing on paper], kolor, format obrazu 16:9 HD, HDCAM, DCP, 13:00’, Stereo 5.1.
Data produkcji: 2015-01-01 © 2015 TVSFA, TVP SA, FINA
A Gingerbread Heart [pl. Serce z piernika] …or a story showing that people are always rewarded by fate for being sensitive to the needs of others and providing unselfish help… The film adaptation of the fairy tale by Kornelia Dobkiewiczowa about Szymek, the son of a miner, who received a gingerbread heart for his tenth birthday. The boy took it to the nearby clay-pit ponds. There he met an old man who was looking for his pipe. Szymek joined the search, and when a heavy rain started raining, he helped the Old Man to pull his cart out of the mud. On the way home, he realized that he had lost the gift of his mother. Szymek’s mother soon became seriously ill and the boy took care of the home. Once he found a clay pipe at the ponds. To his surprise, the Old Man appeared. The boy told him about his mother’s illness, and the old man thanked him by pointing him to a hidden family treasure. The ducats changed the fate of the whole family. Szymek was convinced that this Old Man was the Treasurer, a legendary spirit of the mine….
