Herrn Kukas Empfehlungen
Feature Film, AT/PL 2007, Farbe, 93 min., OmdU
Diagonale 2009
Director: Dariusz Gajewski
Script: Roland Gugganig, Radek Knapp, Dariusz Gajewski (nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Radek Knapp)
Cast: Lukasz Garlicki,
August Diehl,
Nadia Cameron-Blakey,
Tomasz Karolak,
Branko Samarovski,
Andrzej Grabowski
u.a.
Camera: Wojciech Szepel
Editor: Jaroslaw Barzan (PSM)
Location Sound: Miroslaw Makowski
Music: Michael Litwiniec, Tomasz Sikora u.a.
Costumes: Monika Buttinger
Producers: Heinz Stussak, Mathias Forberg, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczynska
Production: Prisma Film
Co-production: Opus Film (PL), ORF, TVP
Young Waldemar has just arrived in Vienna from a small Polish town, and he is already beginning to have doubts about the reliability of the advice his neighbour, Herr Kuka, gave him for his journey. He is cheated by his countrymen while soliciting on street corners, persuaded by a kleptomaniac German friend to rob a bank, loses his virginity for his birthday present, ... The West serves up all kinds of surprises and Waldemar's holiday quickly turns out to be an almost surreal journey of self discovery. A humorous film characterised by social contrasts and finding common ground despite national stereotypes.