Piggies

Åšwinki, 2009, 100 min.

Piggies (2009)
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Awards

2009
Karlovy Vary IFF
Special Prize for Filip Garbacz

Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Best Actor Debut Award for Filip Garbacz

Les Arcs European Film Festival, France
Special Jury Prize

International Young Audience Film Festival in Poznan
Award of Polish Filmmakers Association

Production

Director Robert Glinski
Screenplay Joanna Didik, Robert Glinski
Cinematography Petro Aleksowski
Music Cornelius Renz
Art Director Stefan Hauck
Producer Witold Iwaszkiewicz

Cast

Tomek Filip Garbacz
Marta Anna Kulej
Ciemny Daniel Furmaniak
Weber Rolf Hoppe
Tomek’s Mother Dorota Wierzbicka
Tomek’s Father Bogdan Koca
Agata Katarzyna Pyszynska
Borys Tomasz Tyndyk

Story

Piggies” are teenage prostitutes from a small town on the Polish western border who sell their bodies cheaply for electronic gadgets, cosmetics or clothes. 16-year-old Tomek, who lives close to the border, learns one day that his schoolmate is offering his services to German pedophiles. In order to meet the whims of his girlfriend, Tomek becomes a star of evening jaunts to Germany.