Exclusive: Netflix’s Director of Local Language Originals for the Cee, Anna Nagler, has outlined the streamer’s ambitions in region, as its biggest drama series from the region, High Water, launches globally today.
In an exclusive interview, Nagler said the streamer’s “doors are open” to creatives and their ideas in Central and Eastern Europe, as Netflix pushes into original shows from international territories despite the company’s well-documented stock price drop this year.
This comes after Netflix opened its regional Cee office in Poland this year. Since launching in Poland in 2016, the SVoD player has claimed to have invested more than 490M Pln (115M) on original films and series such as erotic movie franchise 365 Days in the country, creating more than 2,600 jobs across the production sector in 2020 and 2021.
“Opening the Warsaw office was important but also we’re getting closer to the creative community in general,” Nagler told Deadline.
In an exclusive interview, Nagler said the streamer’s “doors are open” to creatives and their ideas in Central and Eastern Europe, as Netflix pushes into original shows from international territories despite the company’s well-documented stock price drop this year.
This comes after Netflix opened its regional Cee office in Poland this year. Since launching in Poland in 2016, the SVoD player has claimed to have invested more than 490M Pln (115M) on original films and series such as erotic movie franchise 365 Days in the country, creating more than 2,600 jobs across the production sector in 2020 and 2021.
“Opening the Warsaw office was important but also we’re getting closer to the creative community in general,” Nagler told Deadline.
- 10/5/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Aga Woszczynska’s incisive debut skewers guilt, desire and class for a vain pair of holidaymakers
Polish director Aga Woszczynska’s methodical and incisive debut feature offers a painterly study of guilt, desire and class, rendered in sky blues, terracotta tiles and white-people nude fabrics. Through an account of a holiday on an Italian island that goes wrong for extremely blond Polish couple Anna and Adam (Agnieszka Zulewska and Dobromir Dymecki), the script explores the chasms of cultural disconnection that lie beneath the tourism-industry fantasy of free-moving people of EU nations gaily traversing the continent in search of jollies.
Anna and Adam arrive at the spacious, secluded villa they’ve hired and are miffed to find the pool they were looking forward to using is empty. They complain to the unctuous manager (Marcello Romolo) who makes excuses and negotiates with the couple to have it fixed as quickly as possible...
Polish director Aga Woszczynska’s methodical and incisive debut feature offers a painterly study of guilt, desire and class, rendered in sky blues, terracotta tiles and white-people nude fabrics. Through an account of a holiday on an Italian island that goes wrong for extremely blond Polish couple Anna and Adam (Agnieszka Zulewska and Dobromir Dymecki), the script explores the chasms of cultural disconnection that lie beneath the tourism-industry fantasy of free-moving people of EU nations gaily traversing the continent in search of jollies.
Anna and Adam arrive at the spacious, secluded villa they’ve hired and are miffed to find the pool they were looking forward to using is empty. They complain to the unctuous manager (Marcello Romolo) who makes excuses and negotiates with the couple to have it fixed as quickly as possible...
- 9/20/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
"We did everything we could, right?" Modern Films in the UK has revealed an official UK trailer for Silent Land, a Polish drama set on an Italian island. This originally premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival last year, and it has been showing at many fests including Zurich, Chicago, Göteborg, Thessaloniki, and at the New Horizons Film Festival in Poland. A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out the pool is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces a water shortage, they ask to fix it. The presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act irrationally, leading them to the darkest place in their relationship. The film stars Dobromir Dymecki, Agnieszka Żulewska, Jean Marc Barr, Alma Jodorowsky, and Marcello Romolo.
- 8/8/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dobromir Dymecki and Agnieszka Zulewska as Adam and Anna in Silent Land
Although Agnieszka Woszczynska and I have spent a few days arranging to meet to discuss her new film, Silent Land, which is screening as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, I’m honestly surprised that she makes it. It’s a very difficult time for her. She’s in Warsaw, which sits on a long road which runs east across the border with Ukraine. Somewhere along that road lies a column of Russian tanks, slowly moving westward. With friends in vulnerable situations, and not feeling very secure herself, she tells me that it’s hard to focus on promoting the film, but she seems to appreciate the distraction.
Though it focuses on just one couple and the decisions they make or fail to make after an accident at their holiday home, Silent Land is a film about big issues and,...
Although Agnieszka Woszczynska and I have spent a few days arranging to meet to discuss her new film, Silent Land, which is screening as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, I’m honestly surprised that she makes it. It’s a very difficult time for her. She’s in Warsaw, which sits on a long road which runs east across the border with Ukraine. Somewhere along that road lies a column of Russian tanks, slowly moving westward. With friends in vulnerable situations, and not feeling very secure herself, she tells me that it’s hard to focus on promoting the film, but she seems to appreciate the distraction.
Though it focuses on just one couple and the decisions they make or fail to make after an accident at their holiday home, Silent Land is a film about big issues and,...
- 3/6/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Desperate for respite from their bourgeois lives in Poland, Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Zulewska) decide to vacation on a tiny Italian island. They wanted a big house with a pool and scenic view to get the most alone time possible. While a genial local (Marcello Romolo’s Fabio) promised exactly that, the pool is found empty and in disarray. He offers a discount. They refuse. He offers a free dinner at his trattoria in town. They explain that food won’t fix anything. Only when Adam asks Fabio what the problem is—considering the damage looks like a two-day job at most—does he agree to hire someone to make things right. A jackhammer wakes Anna the next morning.
First-time feature director Agnieszka Woszczynska (who co-wrote with Piotr Litwin) ensures this couple’s entitlement is on full display from the start of Silent Land. Anna packs the fridge with alcohol.
First-time feature director Agnieszka Woszczynska (who co-wrote with Piotr Litwin) ensures this couple’s entitlement is on full display from the start of Silent Land. Anna packs the fridge with alcohol.
- 9/11/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical The Secret Life of Pets (animated; voices: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart; rated PG) Jason Bourne (action-drama sequel; Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles; rated PG-13) The Hollars (comedy-drama; Sharlto Copley, Charlie Day; rated PG-13) Don’t Think Twice (comedy-drama; Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs; rated R) Demon (horror-thriller; Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Zulewska; rated R) Burn Country (drama-thriller; James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan...
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- 12/7/2016
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
Everything that happened after the vows on my wedding day is a bit of blur. The whirlwind reception of meet-and-greets with family and friends went by in a flash, so whenever a newly engaged couple asks me for advice about their wedding day, I tell them to remember to eat their dinner.
A wedding is the setting for director Marcin Wrona’s Demon, a satire as well as a horror film that evokes Polish history and culture to compose a remarkable genre-bending feature.
Piotr (Itay Tiran) is traveling from London to a small Polish town to meet his bride, Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). Piotr and Zaneta are in a relatively new relationship, and their quick move towards marriage has made Zaneta’s father, Zygmunt (Andrzej Grabowski) cautious. The young couple plans on living in the dilapidated house of Zaneta’s grandfather, where they are also holding the wedding in a nearby barn.
A wedding is the setting for director Marcin Wrona’s Demon, a satire as well as a horror film that evokes Polish history and culture to compose a remarkable genre-bending feature.
Piotr (Itay Tiran) is traveling from London to a small Polish town to meet his bride, Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). Piotr and Zaneta are in a relatively new relationship, and their quick move towards marriage has made Zaneta’s father, Zygmunt (Andrzej Grabowski) cautious. The young couple plans on living in the dilapidated house of Zaneta’s grandfather, where they are also holding the wedding in a nearby barn.
- 10/3/2016
- by Monte Yazzie
- DailyDead
Demon Opens in St. Louis at Landmark’s The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Blvd) on September 23rd
Starring Itay Tiran (Lebanon), Agnieszka Zulewska (Chemo) and Andrzej Grabowski, Demon was the 2015 Best Horror Feature Winner at Fantastic Fest!
Newly arrived from England to marry his fiancee Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska, Chemo), Peter (Israeli actor Itay Tiran, Lebanon) has been given a gift of her family’s ramshackle country house in rural Poland. It’s a total fixer-upper, and while inspecting the premises on the eve of the wedding, he falls into a pile of human remains. The ceremony proceeds, but strange things begin to happen…During the wild reception, Peter begins to come undone, and a dybbuk, the iconic ancient figure from Jewish folklore, takes a toehold in this present-day celebration-for a very particular reason, as it turns out. The final work by Marcin Wrona, who died just as Demon was set to premiere in Poland,...
Starring Itay Tiran (Lebanon), Agnieszka Zulewska (Chemo) and Andrzej Grabowski, Demon was the 2015 Best Horror Feature Winner at Fantastic Fest!
Newly arrived from England to marry his fiancee Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska, Chemo), Peter (Israeli actor Itay Tiran, Lebanon) has been given a gift of her family’s ramshackle country house in rural Poland. It’s a total fixer-upper, and while inspecting the premises on the eve of the wedding, he falls into a pile of human remains. The ceremony proceeds, but strange things begin to happen…During the wild reception, Peter begins to come undone, and a dybbuk, the iconic ancient figure from Jewish folklore, takes a toehold in this present-day celebration-for a very particular reason, as it turns out. The final work by Marcin Wrona, who died just as Demon was set to premiere in Poland,...
- 9/14/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In a day and age where we see dozens (upon dozens) of possession films released every year, Marcin Wrona’s Demon manages to stand out as a truly special cinematic experience. The film consistently defies expectations from beginning to end by going against genre conventions, playing up the scenario’s more darkly comedic elements, and creating a haunting allegory that reflects how even though we often think we can bury our past, it will always find a way to rear its ugly head. Demon also soars due to the stunning performance from Itay Tiran, whose harrowing transformation is a marvel to behold.
At the beginning of Demon, we meet Piotr (Tiran), who arrives in a small village in Poland to marry the lovely Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska) and meet his new family for the very first time. The plan is for the lovebirds to get hitched on the estate of Zaneta’s family,...
At the beginning of Demon, we meet Piotr (Tiran), who arrives in a small village in Poland to marry the lovely Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska) and meet his new family for the very first time. The plan is for the lovebirds to get hitched on the estate of Zaneta’s family,...
- 9/9/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
In the case of director Marcin Wrona, it’s hard to begin any review of his latest film, Demon, without first discussing how it became his last. After the film debuted to high praise at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Wrona would go on to take his own life just prior to the film’s Polish debut. A filmmaker long described as the next Roman Polanski, Wrona’s last film is finally arriving in theaters, and with roots set firmly in both Polish cinema and horror cinema more broadly, Demon is a pitch black comedy that moonlights as one of the year’s most tense horror/thrillers.
Set ostensibly over the span of one wedding, the film introduces us to Piotr (Itay Tiran) as he arrives in a small Polish village to marry the sister of a close friend, a beautiful blonde named Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). Hoping to...
Set ostensibly over the span of one wedding, the film introduces us to Piotr (Itay Tiran) as he arrives in a small Polish village to marry the sister of a close friend, a beautiful blonde named Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). Hoping to...
- 9/9/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Nothing’s allowed to derail the guests of a Polish wedding from having fun, not even the groom’s epileptic seizure. You just pick him up and cart him out. Send the ambulance away so it won’t scare the crowd, pump him full of meds to even him out, and simply bring out more vodka to spike the punch and confuse everyone’s equilibrium when the revelers start spreading rumors that he’s been possessed by a Jewish demon. We aren’t celebrating the union of man and wife after all, this is an excuse to go wild and revere the bride’s father as an unforgettable host. So what if those rumors are true and there’s at least one set of skeletal remains beneath our feet. We can worry about all that tomorrow.
This is Marcin Wrona‘s final film Demon in a nutshell: a tale of destiny,...
This is Marcin Wrona‘s final film Demon in a nutshell: a tale of destiny,...
- 9/7/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Buried for decades... silent until now." The Orchard has released an official Us trailer for a horror-comedy called Demon, from the late Polish filmmaker Marcin Wrona, who finished this film and died last year just before its initial release. Titled Ha'dibouk in Hebrew, the film is about a man possessed by an "unquiet" spirit in the midst of his own wedding. It's a new take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk, described as "part absurdist comedy, part love story that scares, amuses, and charms in equal measure." Starring Agnieszka Zulewska and Itay Tiran, with Andrzej Grabowski and Tomasz Schuchardt. The film is actually partially in English, so dive right in, even though this trailer doesn't seem to show much of the comedic side. This looks quite chilling and unique, worth seeking out if you're a fan of possession horror or Polish cinema. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Marcin Wrona's Demon,...
- 8/3/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A wedding is a big day for the bride and groom, a celebration of one’s love filled with friends, family, and most importantly, a sense of love and joy. But things can undoubtedly go wrong when the groom has been possessed by an unquiet spirit. That’s the case in the new Polish film “Demon,” which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The film follows Piotr (Itay Tiran), or “Python” as he’s called by his friends, who comes from England to a small Polish island to meet his bride, Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). They plan to live in her family’s home, but it’s stood for decades and in need of restoration. The effort quickly unearths buried bones close to the house, and one day Piotr falls into the remains in the middle. Soon, he begins to be transformed by a presence that an aging Jewish professor labels a dybbuk,...
- 8/3/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
I saw Marcin Wrona‘s Demon under what I’d consider ideal circumstances: as a blind viewing at the tail-end of last year’s Camerimage Film Festival, by which point I was a bit delirious from the week’s workload and, most of all, the jet lag that had never quite faded away. And so what, to me, was rather clearly a unique take on the demonic possession story grew all the more odd and terrifying as a result of my half-closed eyes and open mind. Total surprises are hard to come by in even the best of films, even though its wheels were a bit greased — and the experience is what it is.
I’d guess these are not the circumstances under which The Orchard would prefer you see their new release. Regardless of how the viewing happens, make time for Demon despite the extent to which a U.
I’d guess these are not the circumstances under which The Orchard would prefer you see their new release. Regardless of how the viewing happens, make time for Demon despite the extent to which a U.
- 8/3/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Demon
Written by Pawel Maslona & Marcin Wrona
Directed by Marcin Wrona
Poland/Israel, 2015
Part ghost story, part social commentary, director Marcin Wrona’s Demon offers plenty of appeal while remaining frustratingly elusive. The stellar performance from Itay Tiran, a genuinely creepy aesthetic, and a healthy dose of dark humor keep this possession drama interesting throughout. Unfortunately, the final act is a mess, which makes for an arbitrary and unsatisfying conclusion.
Piotr (Tiran) is a young man in love. He has dreams of living happily-ever-after with his fiancée, Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska), and living on her father’s farm in the Polish countryside. Piotr arrives in town and immediately starts making renovations in advance of the massive wedding that Zaneta’s father, Zgmunt (Andrzej Grabowski), has meticulously planned. Things take a decidedly creepy turn, however, when some errant excavator work unearths a human skeleton in the backyard. Unwilling to upset Zaneta, Piotr...
Written by Pawel Maslona & Marcin Wrona
Directed by Marcin Wrona
Poland/Israel, 2015
Part ghost story, part social commentary, director Marcin Wrona’s Demon offers plenty of appeal while remaining frustratingly elusive. The stellar performance from Itay Tiran, a genuinely creepy aesthetic, and a healthy dose of dark humor keep this possession drama interesting throughout. Unfortunately, the final act is a mess, which makes for an arbitrary and unsatisfying conclusion.
Piotr (Tiran) is a young man in love. He has dreams of living happily-ever-after with his fiancée, Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska), and living on her father’s farm in the Polish countryside. Piotr arrives in town and immediately starts making renovations in advance of the massive wedding that Zaneta’s father, Zgmunt (Andrzej Grabowski), has meticulously planned. Things take a decidedly creepy turn, however, when some errant excavator work unearths a human skeleton in the backyard. Unwilling to upset Zaneta, Piotr...
- 9/25/2015
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: Wedding-set supernatural tale to premiere in Vanguard section.
Paris-based genre specialist Reel Suspects had picked up world sales to Demon ahead of its premiere in the Vanguard section of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
It is the third feature by Polish director Marcin Wrona, whose previous award-winning work The Christening also screened in Vanguard to packed houses and critical acclaim in 2010.
“I’m really exited to work on Marcin’s third film film. It’s a perfect crossover title that fits our line-up perfectly,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
“It combines a well mastered drama base with a supernatural element. Demon should find an audience both among cinephiles and curious genre fans alike,” he added.
ICM Partners is handling North America.
Taking inspiration from the Jewish mythological figure of the dybbuk, a malicious spirit, Demon revolves around a wedding that takes a sinister turn when the groom is possessed just prior to the...
Paris-based genre specialist Reel Suspects had picked up world sales to Demon ahead of its premiere in the Vanguard section of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
It is the third feature by Polish director Marcin Wrona, whose previous award-winning work The Christening also screened in Vanguard to packed houses and critical acclaim in 2010.
“I’m really exited to work on Marcin’s third film film. It’s a perfect crossover title that fits our line-up perfectly,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
“It combines a well mastered drama base with a supernatural element. Demon should find an audience both among cinephiles and curious genre fans alike,” he added.
ICM Partners is handling North America.
Taking inspiration from the Jewish mythological figure of the dybbuk, a malicious spirit, Demon revolves around a wedding that takes a sinister turn when the groom is possessed just prior to the...
- 8/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
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