Preludes

Directed, screenplay by Hieronim Neumann
Music composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Music performed by Andrzej Tatarski – piano
Design based on Leon Wyczółkowski’s, Ferdynand Ruszczyc’s, Jan Stanisławski’s, and Władysław Podkowiński’s paintings developed by Hieronim Neumann
Animated by Maciej Matecki
Photography by Krzysztof Szyszka
Editing and sound by Wiesław Nowak
Produced by Ewa Samborska
Classical animation – painting on celluloid, colour, 35 mm, 153 m, 05:35′, format 4:3
Date of production: 25.11.1996 © TVP SA

A film miniature inspired by four short preludes by Fryderyk Chopin and 19th-century paintings by Polish artists Leon Wyczółkowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Jan Stanisławski and Władysław Podkowiński. The leitmotif, is the image of the Polish countryside, whose beauty inspired the work of Fryderyk Chopin. Colourful patches, to the rhythm of music, animated by painterly animation, arise, transform and change before the viewer’s eyes into paintings by Polish painters.