Of the Great Shame
Film from the “Fourteen Tales from Lailonia Kingdom by Leszek Kołakowski” series, based on the philosophical parables „Tales from Lailonia Kingdom for the Big and Small” by Leszek Kołakowski.
Rio, a young fisherman lives in the kingdom of Lailonia. He is in love with Muria but the girl does not reciprocate his feelings. So, when he is called up she is not very concerned.
Rio does his military service but at all times things of Muria and neglects his duties. One day he realises with horror that he has forgotten the colour of her eyes. He begins to shrink out of shame. A court martial sentences him to complete disappearance for shrinking without an order. Muria learns of this extraordinary story. Surprise shows in her blue eyes.
OF THE GREAT SHAME (O WIELKIM WSTYDZIE)
Directed, artwork and editing by Jacek Adamczak
Script, dialogue by Jan Zamojski
Music composed and performed by Zbigniew Kozub
Solo on trumpet by Roman Gryń
Layout by Jacek Adamczak, Maciej Matecki, Janusz Gałązkowski
Animation by Jacek Adamczak, Edyta Budziszyn, Janusz Gałązkowski, Paweł Iwanowski, Elżbieta Kandziora, Maciej Matecki, Edyta Mazurczuk, Ewa Rodewald, Agnieszka Szcześniak
Voices director by Ewa Złotowska
Voices: Narrator-Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Rio-Tomasz Bednarek, General-Mirosław Zbrojewski, Fairy-Antonina Girycz, Pau-Mieczysław Morański
Camera by Krzysztof Szyszka, Krzysztof Napierała
Sound by Wiesław Nowak
Production Manager by Ewa Samborska
Series executive director by Maciej Wojtyszko
Series editor by Anna M. Zaremba (TV SFA)
Series editor by Krystyna Chojnacka (TVP S.A.)
The film made in the classical animation on celluloid, 35 mm, colour, 438 m, 16:00 min.,
Production date: 05.08.1998; © TVP SA 1998
Premiere: 07.11.1998 r. on 10! Annual Polish Film Festival w Chicago
Awards:
HIGH COMMENDATION for the film, 9th International Film Festival ‘Golden Knight’, Moscow, Russia / 2000
DIPLOMA for the film direction, International Festival of Animated Films for Children – Biennial of Animation BAB’99, Bratislava, Slovakia / 1999
POZNAŃ SILVER GOATS AWARD for the best animated film, National Competition, 17th International Festival of Films for Children Ale kino!, Poznań, Poland / 1999
POZNAŃ GOATS AWARD for the author of the best visual design, National Competition, 17th International Festival of Films for Children Ale kino!, Poznań, Poland / 1999
MARCINEK CHILDRENS’ JURY AWARD for directing and visual design, National Competition, 17th International Festival of Films for Children Ale kino!, Poznań, Poland / 1999
MARCINEK CHILDRENS’ JURY AWARD for interesting animation and reminding audiences that ‘the most important things are those that the eye cannot see’ and that in a drab reality only dreams are in colour, International Competition, 17th International Festival of Films for Children Ale kino!, Poznań, Poland / 1999
SILVER LINE AWARD, 5th National Festival of Animation Films, Cracow, Poland / 1998
