My Nikifor

My Nikifor

95 mins | Drama | July 29, 2004

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

95 mins | Drama | July 29, 2004

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).
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Canal+ Polska, Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, TVP, Studio Filmowe Zebra
Original title Moj Nikifor
Directors Krzysztof Krauze
Writers Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze

Cast

Krystyna Feldman

as Nikifor

Roman Gancarczyk

as Marian Wlosinski

Jerzy Gudejko

as Ryszard Nowak

Jowita Budnik

as Cleaning Lady Kowalska

Lucyna Malec

as Hanna Wlosinska

Katarzyna Paczynska

as Ala Wlosinska

Karolina Paczynska

as Ewa Wlosinska

Artur Steranko

as Doctor Rosen

Marian Dziędziel

as Beekeeper Ferek

Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska

as Nikifor's Housekeeper

Ewa Wencel

as Director of 'Zacheta'