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PIOTR LITwIN POLAND
FLORA & FAUNA
Tel: +48 605 353 596
E-mail: peterlitwin@o2.pl
Intention
Flora & Fauna is a story of a peculiar day. A story
inspired by two different real life stories, that found
me during the last two years. Although it deals with an
uneasy subject it tries to show human beings without
judging them. Only suggesting that perhaps they got a
bit lost in the modern World. It also tries not to explain
human behaviour as by watching someone from aside
or through a glass window we are not able to tell about
motivations behind actions. We can only observe
them, their actions and the consequences that they
lead to. As with fish in a bowl or an aquarium.
This is the perspective and distance I want to maintain
during the film. I hope this will allow me to play with the
audience expectations and desires as we follow the
day of Jan and Marysia and their growing frustration.
Hopefully this will also underline the absurd nature
of the situation they got themselves into resulting in
some black humour.
Although Jan and Marysia will be eventually left unsatisfied,
their meeting will perhaps allow them to move
on from the point of life they stuck in. And we, for a
moment during the dinner, will see a twisted vision of a
possible but improbable family.
Synopsis
Jan (56) is a high school teacher who decides to buy
a young girl’s virginity. Marysia (15) decides to sell her
first time with a man. They agree to meet and go to
a hotel where their contract can be settled and consumed.
Due to Jan’s lack of erection they are unable
to do so. They part ways without resolving their contract.
Later in the day as emotions cool down, Jan realizes
that he paid for something he did not get. Jan and Marysia
meet again. To his surprise Marysia informs him
that she needs his cash and convinces him to continue
with the contract at her place.
Inside her flat Jan overcomes his passiveness, but
now Marysia begins to have second thoughts. Jan almost
rapes her but in the last moment he is brought
to his senses by the girl’s scream. For the first time
this day they see each other as human beings and
talk honestly. Their idleness is interrupted by Marysia’s
mother early return home. Marysia tries to lie herself
out of the situation. Jola has doubts but eventually Jan
stays for dinner...
PRODUCTION FACTS
Estimated Budget: 18.000 €
To be produced by the Polish National
Film School and by MX35(film equipment).
Looking for sound design co-production
possibilities.
Looking for financial co-production possibilities.
“I want my money
back.”
Director Biography
Piotr Litwin. Born in 1983 in Moscow,
USSR, from Polish father and Korean
mother. Living in Poland since 1986.
From 2002 till 2007 a student of Warsaw
University at Law Faculty and Social Science
Faculty, with a short stint at Korean
Philology. Since 2007 a student of Directing
at the Polish National Film, Television
and Theater School in Lodz. Since 2011 a
co-owner of MX35, a film equipment rental
house. Some awards. Does not believe
that the World will end in 2012. Currently
preparing his graduation film and observing
how his six months old son is growing
up.
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