IKAR 28/99ICARUS
IKAR 28/99
ICARUS
screenplay and direction:
Mirosław Dembiński
screenplay
inspiration: Marek
Pietracha
photography :
Paweł Wendorff
editing:
Marek Denys
music: Janek Pospieszalski
archival photos: Bogdan Kulka, Balbina Kasperkowiak
1999 / Betacam / 38
min.
The portrait of Bogdan Kulka "the last free hang-glider pilot". He was one of the most colourful and at the same time one of the most controversial personalities among the Polish hang-gliders pilots. He was second awards winner in Coupe Icare 97, which was the Polish hang gliding biggest success. At the same time he was condemned for desperate flights at night, with rotors and in the mist. He was the author of considerate and refine articles in the “Aviation Review" and the creator of obscene puppets with fluttering genitals. A hard-working photographer, owner of two photo-labs and he was an absent-minded father of two boys, whose mother he did not manage to marry. He didn't because he died Icarus's death fascinated with the frantic spiral glide that he did not stop near the ground.
PRIZES:
Special Jury Award at the International Mountain Film
Festival in Teplice (Czech Republic) 1999
Audience Award at the
International Mountain Film Festival in Lądek Zdrój
(Poland) 1999
Grand Prix at the International
Mountain Film Festival in Poprad (Slovakia) 1999
Audience Award at the
International Mountain Film Festival in Vancouver (Canada) 2000
A prize „Mountain Spirit” at the
International Mountain Film Festival in Telluride (USA) 2000
Special Jury Award at the
International Mountain Film Festival in Cervino (Italy) 2000
Grand Prix at the International
Mountain Film Festival in Graz (Austria) 2000
Best Director Award at the
International Documentary Film Festival in Ljubljana (Slovenia) 2003OPINIONS:
„Ikarus”
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Paragliding Discussion Group I think it’s better to ask someone who is not associated with flying what he thinks about this film. I did that and to my surprise my friend got into flying. He claims that “Icarus” has ‘POWER’.
