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SUICIDE ROOM

by Jan Komasa

synopsis

Dominik, a high school student, is humiliated by his colleagues one too many times; he stops going to school and shuts himself in the virtual world. There he meets a girl who has attempted suicide. She brings him into the “suiciders room” - an online place for people who, like Dominik, no longer want to live, or at least give off that impression. An attempt at portraying hikikomori - a sociological phenomenon often described as Internet addiction. The addict locks himself away from the world, enters his “hermitage”. These neohermits of the 21st century can spend anything from a few months to a few years, locked in a room, needing nothing but a computer with an Internet connection.

international title: Suicide Room
original title: Sala Samobojcow
country: Poland
sales agent: LevelK
year: 2010
genre: fiction
directed by: Jan Komasa
film run: 106'
release date: PL 04/03/2011, CZ 28/03/2013
screenplay: Jan Komasa
cast: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gąsiorowska, Agata Kulesza, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Bartosz Gelner, Danuta Borsuk, Piotr Nowak, Filip Bobek, Krzysztof Dracz, Aleksandra Hamkalo
cinematography by: Radek Ladczuk
film editing: Bartek Pietras
art director: Katarzyna Filimoniuk
costumes designer: Dorota Roqueplo
music: Michal Jacaszek
production: Studio Filmowe Kadr, Media Brigade, Odra Film
backing: Polish Film Institute
distributor: ITI Cinema, Film Europe, Film Europe s.r.o.

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