Full Description
A sequel to POLONAISE (SFJFF 1989) where the emotional family undercurrents at the wedding of Nico and Lea, reveal their having been hidden as children, with Christians during WWII. Alexander is doing a video update on his former family and friends. We find Lea and Nico smack in the middle of a classic mid-life crisis. Lea worries about Nico’s emotional distance and is distressed to learn that Dory, Nico’s first wife, is now pregnant at age 40-–and is loath to reveal who the father is. Nico’s best friend, Hans, is married with seven children but finds that he has eyes for another. This lively, fast-paced, humorous, and poignant story was produced by the same team as ANTONIA’S LINE, which received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The cast of POLONAISE was reassembled 12 years later with the warmth and familiarity of a family reunion. Fran Weisz, the film’s director is reunited with award winning writer/poet, Judith Herzberg, with whom he also collaborated in the making of CHARLOTTE, an audience favorite from the SFJFF in 1982.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
After the original ambition to become an actor and study at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, he spent two years at the Amsterdam Film Academy. He completed his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome with a scholarship from the Dutch government, and was so successful with his first short PING PONG E POI, that he was offered to direct an episode for the Italian production of GLI EROI ("Heroes"). This light-hearted comedy, shot in Rome in 1963, marked the beginning of Frans' career, which now includes shorts, features, and television productions spanning four decades.
