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Luxury

Country: Poland, Language: Polish, 39 mins

Original Title

Luksus
  • Director: Jaroslaw Sztandera
  • Writer: Tomasz Olejarczyk; Jaroslaw Sztandera

CGiii Comment

Grim, bleak and worrying.

There is a talent here - beautifully shot, brilliantly acted - a snippet of the future career of Szstandera.


Trailer...

Luksus - trailer by Jakub Brzekowski/dir. by Jarek Sztandera (2008) from Jakub Brzekowski on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

A 17 years young man, a story about child prostitution and pedophilia. The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas. Senior - prostitute nicknamed "Luxury", and junior - beginner, a beggar child with a dog. A local taxi driver, the pimp i n the sex business, with teenagers, offers Luxury job pimp. Will the boy to exploit his younger friend, or help him escape the clutches of child prostitution ...?

Cast & Characters

Piotr Sokolowski as Luksus;
Zbigniew Zamachowski as Popers;
Michal Wlodarczyk as Maly;
Dorota Chotecka as Mama blizniaczek;
Antonina Lazarkiewicz as Blizniaczek;
Milena Lazarkiewicz as Blizniaczek;
Janusz Rybczynski as Tata blizniaczek;
Pawel Szczesny as Fotograf