>>> Collapse (Poland)
Series of mysterious murders sweep through Poland. A special investigation team led by Chief Inspector Smuga, a Polish ace cop, finds out that all the victims committed grievous crimes. However, due to their high social and financial status, they escaped punishment. Their deaths bear the mark of cold blooded executions, hence the codename of the case: “The Executioner.”
Since the investigation concerns people in the spotlight, the superiors assign Smuga a “partner” from the Secret Service, a beautiful, young and ambitious woman called Lena. Soon, their cooperation turns into a fiery, yet dangerous love affair.
Step by step, they tail the Executioner, who becomes a hero for the masses, growing to a mythical avenger delivering justice to “the Untouchables”... Not only is he game but he plays his own mysterious game with his “hunters.” The investigation is revealed to us from a subjective viewpoint of Lena, who begins to suspect that her partner and lover conceals a dark secret. And not only him, since nothing and nobody, as in a classic film noir, is what they seem.
Spoiler alert! When Lena finally discovers the truth that Smuga and the Executioner are the same person, she must choose between her love and her duty.
Andrzej Gołda
Graduated from the scriptwriting department at the Film School in Łódź in 1996. The first film script entitled "Biedroneczko, biedroneczko..." (Ladybird, ladybird...)- written during the studying period - won a national edition of an international Ted Hartley and Dina Merrill contest of the RKO Pictures in 1997 and represented Poland in the finals in Hollywood. The same script allowed me to take part in the First Workshops of Eastern Europe scriptwriters organized by the Sundance Institute of Robert Redford in Hungary.
Recently realized features are "Piekło, niebo" (Heaven and Earth) and "Hania" - directed by double Academy Award winner Janusz Kamiński.
In the recent years, I have written several dozen of scripts for the episodes in such serials as "Na dobre i na złe" (For better and for worse) (broadcasted by TVP) and "Kryminalni" (Crime detectives) (broadcasted by TVN) and "Policjanci" (Polsat).
In autumn 2007, my screenplay about the life of Leopold Tyrmand won a competition organized by the Polish Film Institute.
I have also received the prize of Polish Journalist Association, so-called Polish Pulitzer for the best local affairs publication. A year earlier, I received an honorable award in the same category. I am an active journalist.
