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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Urszula Urbaniak
Script :
Urszula Urbaniak
Photography :
Bartek Prokopowicz
Editor :
Jaroslaw Kaminski
Cast :
Karolina Dryzner, Ewa Lorska, Ewa Dalkowska, Marcin Dorocinski
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THE JUNCTION
Maria feels trapped. She works as a signalman at a remote railway junction and lives with her widowed mother and a brother who deals drugs. All day she huddles in the signalman's hut and watches the trains go by. Her only companion is Andrzej, a mentally-handicapped boy. She just can't work up the courage to leave. Also desperate to find something better is her best friend Krystyna. Krystyna is as spontaneous and adventurous as Maria is timid. She tries men like candy but finds that mostly all they leave is a bitter aftertaste. Krystyna stands and screams under the railway bridge but Maria can't find her voice. Maria gets her hopes up with Zbyszek, a young engineer, but Andrzej's presence makes intimacy impossible. Anyway, like most other men, Zbyszek prefers Krystyna and Maria ends up witnessing their assignation in the locomotive. Maria lends Krystyna money to have an abortion but their friendship has grown strained. And things aren't any better at home. Her mother has a new boyfriend and her brother is deeper into drugs than ever. Maria is desperate; she must get out of this junction to nowhere. Then Krystyna decides not to have her abortion after all; instead she goes off to get married to her last remaining admirer. This is Maria's chance...
Urszula Urbaniak
Urszula Urbaniak has directed shorts, documentaries and several dramas for Polish television. Among the dramas: Nina (1994), Gorski Hotel (from Vaclav Havel's play, 1995), Myra Gets Married (from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1996) and Mr. Twardowski (1997). Her shorts and documentaries include: Coolness (1990), The Expectation (1990), Free Man (1991), Time Stands Still (1992) and Whole (1993). THE JUNCTION is her first fiction feature.
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