Call of the Toad
Encyclopedia
Call of the Toad is a film released in 2005 that tells the love story between a German man and a Polish woman who become caught up in the advent of modern capitalism in Poland.
, Poland
, in 1989, Alexander Reschke and Alexandra Piatkowska first meet on their way to a cemetery. Both are survivors from the end of WWII when many people from Poland and Germany were displaced as borders were re-drawn according to the ideas of politicians.
But they discover that displacement and war is not all they have in common. They have both been widowed and due of their upheaval - they share the belief that survivors such as themselves should have the right to be returned home for burial.
As their love affair grows, their ambitions become entwined. The pair establishes a Cemetery of Reconciliation to show that old hatreds are now dead. They form a company that arranges for survivors to be buried in their original country but as the money rolls in, their good intentions are corrupted.
Synopsis
In GdanskGdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, in 1989, Alexander Reschke and Alexandra Piatkowska first meet on their way to a cemetery. Both are survivors from the end of WWII when many people from Poland and Germany were displaced as borders were re-drawn according to the ideas of politicians.
But they discover that displacement and war is not all they have in common. They have both been widowed and due of their upheaval - they share the belief that survivors such as themselves should have the right to be returned home for burial.
As their love affair grows, their ambitions become entwined. The pair establishes a Cemetery of Reconciliation to show that old hatreds are now dead. They form a company that arranges for survivors to be buried in their original country but as the money rolls in, their good intentions are corrupted.
Awards
- Nominated Best Actress, Polish Film Awards.
- Nominated Best Film Score, Polish Film Awards.
- Nominated Best Production Design, Polish Film Awards.
- Nominated Best Supporting Actor, Polish Film Awards.
External links
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420289/
- http://www.cinefacts.de/kino/566/unkenrufe/filmreview.html
- http://www.moviemaster.de/archiv/film/film_3864.html
- http://www.moviereporter.net/filme/309
- http://www.zelluloid.de/filme/index.php3?id=5140