Piotr Rosołowski is a Polish director, screenwriter and cinematographer based in Berlin. He graduated from the Katowice Film School and was awarded a scholarship from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He has co-directed three successful feature-length documentaries with Elwira Niewiera: Domino Effect (2014), which won awards at the Krakow Film Festival and DOK Leipzig, The Prince and the Dybbuk (2017), which was awarded the Lion for Best Film Documentary at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and The Hamlet Syndrome (2022), which won the Grand Prix at the Critics' Week in Locarno. Alongside his career as a director, he has worked as director of photography on numerous award-winning feature films and shorts.
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.