Ida Foreign Movie Reveals, Updates, Plot and Event Wins: Best Foreign Language Film and Best European Film at the 27th European Film Awards

Ida Foreign Movie Reveals, Updates, Plot and Event Wins: Best Foreign Language Film and Best European Film at the 27th European Film Awards

2014 has seen a myriad of films including a host of foreign language films among the foreign language films that have made their rounds is the Polish movie Ida. The movie written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski was first shown outside of Poland at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI special presentations award and has been selected for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Oscars as well as the People's Choice Award for Best European film at the 27^th European Film awards.

Set in the 1960's the film is about a young nun, Anna who is about to take her vows. Abandoned at the convent as a child, Anna believes she has no family but her prioress informs her that she has a distant aunt whom she insists Anna should visit before she takes her vows. The innocent aunt goes to visit her aunt whom she finds worldly, a drinker and a smoker in the very scene where she meets her aunt we see a male visitor leaving the house. Based on what she sees at that moment the innocent Anna makes her conclusions but is soon proven wrong as she finds out her aunt is actually a magistrate and a former prosecutor in the Stalin Regime. Her Aunt reveals to Anna that she is in fact Ida Lebenstein a Jew. The two set out on a journey to find out what happened to Ida's parents. The film is about a loss of innocence and the far reaching effects of the war as well Anti Semitism in Europe that had its roots deeply entrenched in the society long before the war.

The movie stars Agata Kulesza who is a well known Polish actor both on stage, in movies and on television and is a member of the Polish Film Academy. The camera work is also of note with the quality looking like it was shot in the 1960's and is in fact so well shot that it looks like it is rediscovered footage. To add to this romanticism the movie is in black and white.  So far the movie has made almost 10 million dollars at the post office.

 

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