When a young man with a troubled past arrives in a small-town Polish parish, he pulls off an unlikely feat, convincing the villagers that he’s a visiting priest. But not long after he’s welcomed by…
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I liked the main concept. I didn’t know much of the background — I didn’t have time to dig into it deeper. It was very well researched. The work [scriptwriter Mateusz Pacewicz and consultant Krzysztof Rak] did was tremendous, but I felt like it lacked more of a fire — some type of edge. I wanted Daniel to be more threatened. I wanted him to be a guy who’s basically on a tightrope — not only because he is in fear of [being uncovered] as a fake priest.
That was also inspiration for me to create this community [in the film], which gathered around one accident that happened, and part of the village becoming totally assured that it was because some evil happened. Since that moment the village was cursed, and they have to pray for a new era. And there are some people who don’t say it out loud, that know it was an accident, and even though it was a trauma, it doesn’t bear any more significance than a singular event can bear.
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