My Nikifor
– From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (..
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).
24 Sep 2004
Polish
Krzysztof Krauze
Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
Krystyna Feldman, Roman Gancarczyk, Jerzy Gudejko, Jowita Budnik
Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".
17 wins & 7 nominations.