Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".
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- 17 wins & 7 nominations
Jowita Budnik
- Cleaning Lady Kowalska
- (as Jowita Miondlikowska)
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- TriviaThe part of Nikifor is played by a woman, Krystyna Feldman. She was chosen by the director because of her physical and spiritual resemblance to Nikifor. The actress was widely known for deliberately having no TV set, washing machine or refrigerator in her house in Poznan.
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Music by Waldemar Kazanecki
Lyrics by Anna Jankowska
Vocal performed by Natasza Zylska
Music performed by Juliusz Skowronski
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Nikifor was given birth in the stables, by his deaf and mute mother. He had a twin sister, which later has frozen to death. Local Nikifor has inherited his mother's disability by having his tongue-tied to a palate (ankyloglossia), which made him unable to articulate and produce understandable speech, and was partially deaf. He was also illiterate. Various people have given him shelter, he had no birth certificate. From a legal point of view... he simply did not exist. He was raised and lived in an isolation from society, it's standards, and people, who poked fun at a miserable creature. Screen writer, Joanna Kos, in an interview in Gazeta Wyborcza admitted that film should be viewed as a study on humanity, and likened the story to this of an Elijah prophet.
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- Gross worldwide
- $213,505
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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