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2015
Czerwony Pająk
Directed by Marcin Koszałka
Synopsis
Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.
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Cast
Filip Pławiak Adam Woronowicz Julia Kijowska Małgorzata Foremniak Wojciech Zieliński Marek Kalita Przemysław Bluszcz Piotr Głowacki Andrzej Konopka Barbara Jonak
DirectorDirector
Marcin Koszałka
ProducersProducers
Agnieszka Kurzydło Viktor Tauš Michal Kollár Izabela Helbin Katarzyna Wodecka-Stubbs Rafal Orlicki
WritersWriters
Marcin Koszałka Łukasz M. Maciejewski
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Marta Szreder
EditorEditor
Krzysztof Komander
CinematographyCinematography
Marcin Koszałka
Camera OperatorsCamera Operators
Michał Sobociński Adam Mendry
Art DirectionArt Direction
Ryszard Melliwa Magdalena Dipont
Visual EffectsVisual Effects
Michal Křeček
ComposerComposer
Petr Ostrouchov
SoundSound
Michał Fojcik Jacek Wiśniewski
Studios
Krakow Film Commission Fog'n'Desire Films Sokol Kollár Zentropa International Poland Orange Polska Mental Disorder 4 Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe
Countries
Czechia Poland Slovakia
Primary Language
Polish
Spoken Languages
German Polish
Alternative Titles
红蜘蛛, 더 레드 스파이더, Красный паук, Červený pavouk, Die rote Spinne, Il ragno rosso
Genre
Thriller
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Theatrical
27 Nov 2015
Poland
24 Mar 2016
- Czechia
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Czechia
24 Mar 2016
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Poland
27 Nov 2015
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Review by 📽️Movie Jail🎬 ★★★½ 3
A different kind of serial killer story. More to do with the fascination of killings, rather than a story about killings.
One one hand, you have your actual serial killers, and then there's those who are absolutely fascinated with them.
In this case, it's a curious fascination that turns into obsession - a very unhealthy obsession.I know of people who are very into their serial killer crime history, as well as fictional stories in both the book and TV format. All of these people happen to be women for some reason. Two of whom are colleagues and love their true crime stuff - with emphasis on serial killers - and a couple of months ago we were at my…
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Review by Błażej ★★★
Gęsta atmosfera i dobre kreacje. Zawodzi swoją niejasnością. Natomiast jest to dobry polski kryminał.
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Review by Christian Fecht ★★★★
Zwei Serienkiller streifen durch die Straßen des Kraków des Jahres 1967 und verbreiten unter der Bevölkerung Angst und Schrecken. Ein ruhiger Film über das Böse und die Befriedigung am Töten, der die Genauigkeit des Dokumentarfilms mit der Stilisierung des Arthouse-Films mischt und uns - zum Glück - jegliche psychologische und soziologische Erklärungen erspart, ein Film, der das Böse als reines, undurchdringliches und daher umso verstörenderes Rätsel inszeniert. Der Debütfilm des Kameramanns und Dokumentarfilmers Marcin Koszalka kombiniert die Lebensläufe der beiden berühmtesten polnischen Serienmörder, des jugendlichen Karol Kots, des Vampirs von Kraków, der als jüngster Serienmörder in die Kriminalgeschichte einging, und Lucjan Staniaks, der rote Spinne, von dem nicht so genau weiß, ob er nun existiert hat oder nur eine urbane…
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Review by Christian76 ★★
Konfus erzähltes, bewusst unterkühltes Serienkiller"drama", in dem ich die Handlungen der Charaktere nie nachvollziehen konnte.
Schade, da hatte ich mir viel mehr erhofft.
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Review by tomalla ★★
Die perverse Faszination mit Gewalt und Tod hat schon so manchen Filmhelden und Zuschauer in ihren Bann gezogen. Scheinbar unschuldige und brave Musterschüler oder fürsorgliche Familienväter werden von einer inneren vorzivilisatorischen Animalität übermannt, die sich in Folge eines unerwarteten Gewaltaktes in ihnen rührt. Der Gedanke ans Töten kann sich zu einem Wunsch entwickeln und die Identifikation mit einem tatsächlichen Mörder endet nicht selten mit einem Identitätsverlust. Vor einem solchen Dilemma steht Karol Kremer, der Protagonist in Die Rote Spinne (Czerwony pająk), dem Spielfilmdebüt von Marcin Koszałka.
Polen, 1960er Jahre: Karol ist ein erfolgreicher Turmspringer, der beste in Krakau, seiner Heimatstadt. Er ist Medizinstudent, gutaussehend und hat ein geregeltes Leben. Eines Abends wird er Zeuge eines Mords an einem Jungen und…
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Review by Devan Scott ★★★½
Shot almost exclusively in orange and green tones, the first half of this film follows an inscrutable yet clearly unbalanced young man as he wanders around a major Polish city mulling murder. In the second half, he's killed at the hands of the state. So, it's A Short Film About Killing. The two works do diverge in significant ways when it comes to certain specifics (Koszałka is clearly less interested in making a morality play and more interested with the idea of criminals-as-celebrities, an issue not at all on Kieslowski's radar), but they circle back to common themes of the unknowability of the human mind and the inherent hypocrisy in state-sponsored murder.
Taken as a variation on this theme, the…
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Review by Yicama ★★½
For it's own good, this film would have been better as a short. To constantly show off how artistic your camerawork is, but mixed with the sloppy dialogue, it's just difunctional to me. Overall I would say this film was a bore and IN NO WAY is it a horror film. I don't know why it was advertised as that, but my expectations where not met. I might have to see it again, but this is all I will say for right now (until more people review the project).
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Review by Reg Linn ★★★½
Beautifully shot, I can't stress that enough, and makes some really interesting editing choices. However, the first act is a bit sloppy and it's difficult to understand the protagonist's motivations, which took me out of it. Too bad. My main takeaway was, "I should probably watch A Short Film About Killing."
