
My Nikifor
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
My Nikifor
July 29, 2004
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Cast (11)

Krystyna Feldman
Nikifor Krynicki

Roman Gancarczyk
Marian Wlosinski

Jerzy Gudejko
Ryszard Nowak

Jowita Budnik
Cleaning Lady Kowalska

Lucyna Malec
Hanna Wlosinska

Katarzyna Paczyńska
Ala Wlosinska

Karolina Paczynska
Ewa Wlosinska

Artur Steranko
Doctor Rosen

Marian Dziędziel
Beekeeper Ferek

Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska
Nikifor's Housekeeper

Ewa Wencel
Director of 'Zacheta'
Crew (21)
Directing

Krzysztof Krauze
Director
Writing

Krzysztof Krauze
Writer

Joanna Kos-Krauze
Writer
Production

Juliusz Machulski
Producer

Paweł Mossakowski
Producer

Wojciech Danowski
Executive Producer

Beata Ryczkowska
Producer

Andrzej Serdiukow
Producer

Joanna Kos-Krauze
Casting

Jacek Moczydłowski
Executive Producer
Sound
Art

Magdalena Dipont
Production Design

Magdalena Dipont
Set Decoration

Adam Nowakowski
Props

Anna Wunderlich
Set Decoration
Camera

Krzysztof Ptak
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up

Dorota Roqueplo
Costume Design
Crew

Wojciech Konkol
Health and Safety
Editing

Krzysztof Szpetmański
Editor