The nominations for the Eagles, the Polish Film Awards, have been announced — and the makers of “Johnny” received as many as eight of them! Among them the nomination for Best Film, collected by the producer of “Johnny”, NEXT FILM CEO Robert Kijak. The winners will be announced on 6 March.
Robert Kijak with his nomination in the Best Film category
Piotr Trojan with his nomination in the Best Leading Actor category
Dawid Ogrodnik with his nomination in the Best Leading Actor category
Maria Pakulnis with her nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category
Daniel Jaroszek with his nomination in the Discovery of the Year category
Maciej Kraszewski with his nomination in the Best Screenplay category
Sebastian Brański, Filip Krzemień and Wojciech Mielimąka with their nomination in the Best Sound category
Liliana Gałązka with her nomination in the Best Make-up category
“Johnny” is a story based on true events — one that moves and inspires. It is told from the perspective of Jan Kaczkowski’s charge, Patryk Galewski — a young man who did not have an easy start in life.
Patryk breaks into a cottage in a small town. A court sentences him to community service at the hospice in Puck, where he meets the remarkable Fr. Jan Kaczkowski. The priest gets young vocational-school boys — seemingly hardened rebels — involved in helping the terminally ill. In his work he focuses on closeness, tenderness and fighting for real relationships with other people. He teaches empathy. And he does it with wholesale amounts of humour, which wins him enormous popularity. Not long afterwards, Jan himself becomes a patient of his own hospice. Patryk finds himself in a situation that will change his entire life.
“Johnny” is the second film produced and distributed by NEXT FILM. It drew 979,043 viewers to cinemas, making it the second highest-grossing Polish film of 2022.
