Venice

Marek, a boy with a large imagination, wants one thing, to see Venice, but the war begins and Poland grows steadily more dangerous. His family places him in his aunt’s house, and there, in a flooded cellar, he builds his own small Venice. While the heaviest years of the century pass outside, in that water filled room under the house a child goes on travelling. Jan Jakub Kolski wrote and directed the hundred and ten minute Polish film, taking his screenplay from a text by Włodzimierz Odojewski, with cinematography by Artur Reinhart. Marcin Walewski, Magdalena Cielecka and Agnieszka Grochowska star, and the film tells growing up and escaping at the same time.