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The Magic Mountain is a roumain film of genre Drama directed by Anca Damian with Miossec
The Magic Mountain (2015)
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Add to a movie listThe Magic Mountain is a 2015 Romanian animated drama film directed by Anca Damian. It tells the story of Adam Jacek Winkler, a Polish anti-communist who in the 1980s fought against the Soviet Union in the Soviet–Afghan War, alongside Ahmad Shah Massoud. The film was co-produced with French and Polish companies. It was made using a mix of animation techniques and Winkler's personal photographs, sketches and film footage. The English-language version of the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as the voice of Winkler.
The film received a Special Jury Mention at the 2015 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Damian envisions the film as the second part in a trilogy about heroism, after Crulic: The Path to Beyond from 2011.
Synopsis
Adam Jacek Winkler, artiste et alpiniste polonais anti-communiste réfugié à Paris, s’interroge sur son existence et s’engage aux côtés du commandant Massoud en Afghanistan contre les soviétiques dans la guerre d'Afghanistan.Actors
Miossec
(Adam Jacek Winkler (French version))
Jean-Marc Barr
(Adam Jacek Winkler (English version))
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
(Adam Jacek Winkler (version polonaise))
Lizzie Brocheré
(Anna Winkler)
Julia Kijowska
(Anna Winkler (version polonaise))
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