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2005 Polish film

The Collector

Polish	Komornik

Directed by	Feliks Falk
Written by	Grzegorz Łoszewski
Produced by	Janusz Morgenstern, Pawel Mossakowski, Andrzej Serdiukow, Wlodzimierz Nideraus
Starring	Andrzej Chyra Małgorzata Kożuchowska
Cinematography	Bartosz Prokopowicz
Music by	Bartłomiej Gliniak
Release date	7 October 2005 (2005-10-07)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
Box office	$ 496 454

The Collector (Polish: Komornik) is a 2005 Polish drama film directed by Feliks Falk. It was the Polish submission for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Shooting for the film began in November 2004 and was completed on January 5, 2005. Shooting was taken in Warsaw and Wałbrzych.

Plot

The "collector" of the title is Lucjan Bohme, a bailiff employed to collect debts for a court in the town of Wałbrzych. He carries out his job with ruthless efficiency until a meeting with a former girlfriend, now struggling to bring up her child, leads him to question his attitudes.

Cast

Andrzej Chyra – Lucjan Bohme
Małgorzata Kożuchowska – Anna Zenke
Kinga Preis – Gosia Bednarek
Grzegorz Wojdon – Jasiek Marczak
Jan Frycz – Chudy
Sławomir Orzechowski – Wiśniak
Marian Dziędziel – Horst
Marian Opania – Robert Chełst

Awards

At the 30th Gdynia Film Festival in 2005, The Collector won the Golden Lions for the best film.

In 2006, the film turned out to be the undisputed winner of the Polish Film Awards — it won seven Eagles.

The film also won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.

References

"The Collector (2005)". Box Office Mojo.
"Review: 'The Collector'". Variety. 15 December 2005.
Komornik | Film | 2005 (in Polish), retrieved 2022-06-28
"The Collector". Cineuropa. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
"Komornik (The Collector)". Eye Cinema. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
"30th Gdynia Festival of Polish Feature Films". KINO.

External links

The Collector at IMDb

v t e Polish Academy Award for Best Film
Historia kina w Popielawach (1999) The Debt (2000) Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2001) Cześć Tereska (2002) The Pianist (2003) Zmruż oczy (2004) The Wedding (2005) The Collector (2006) Plac Zbawiciela (2007) Katyń (2008) 33 Scenes from Life (2009) Reverse (2010) Essential Killing (2011) Rose (2012) Obława (2013) Ida (2014) Gods (2015) Body (2016) Volhynia (2017) Cicha noc (2018) Cold War (2019) Corpus Christi (2020) Kill It and Leave This Town (2021) Quo Vadis, Aida? (2022) EO (2023) Green Border (2024)

Polish Academy Award for Best Film

Historia kina w Popielawach (1999)
The Debt (2000)
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2001)
Cześć Tereska (2002)
The Pianist (2003)
Zmruż oczy (2004)
The Wedding (2005)
The Collector (2006)
Plac Zbawiciela (2007)
Katyń (2008)
33 Scenes from Life (2009)
Reverse (2010)
Essential Killing (2011)
Rose (2012)
Obława (2013)
Ida (2014)
Gods (2015)
Body (2016)
Volhynia (2017)
Cicha noc (2018)
Cold War (2019)
Corpus Christi (2020)
Kill It and Leave This Town (2021)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2022)
EO (2023)
Green Border (2024)

v t e Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1963–1975	Knife in the Water (1963) Passenger (1964) Pharaoh (1966) Matthew's Days (1968) Everything for Sale (1969) The Taste of Black Earth (1970) Family Life (1971) Pearl in the Crown (1972) Copernicus (1973) The Deluge (1974) The Promised Land (1975)
1976–2000	Nights and Days (1976) Camouflage (1977) Death of a President (1978) The Maids of Wilko (1979) Olympics 40 (1980) Man of Iron (1981) Yesterday (1985) Axiliad (1986) Hero of the Year (1987) A Short Film About Love (1988) Kornblumenblau (1989) Korczak (1990) The Double Life of Véronique (1991) All That Really Matters (1992) Squadron (1993) Three Colours: White (1994) Crows (1995) At Full Gallop (1996) Love Stories (1997) Pan Tadeusz (1999) Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
2001–present	Quo Vadis (2001) Edi (2002) Pornografia (2003) The Welts (2004) The Collector (2005) Retrieval (2006) Katyń (2007) Tricks (2008) Reverse (2009) All That I Love (2010) In Darkness (2011) 80 Million (2012) Walesa: Man of Hope (2013) Ida (2014) 11 Minutes (2015) Afterimage (2016) Spoor (2017) Cold War (2018) Corpus Christi (2019) Never Gonna Snow Again (2020) Leave No Traces (2021) EO (2022) The Peasants (2023) Under the Volcano (2024)

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