Katarzyna Grynienko Director Karolina Bielawska is moving into production with her debut feature, a biopic inspired by the life of iconic Polish singer Violetta Villas.
The working title is “Violetta and the Woodpecker,” Film New Europe reports.Bielawska has spent five years developing the project.
She is best known for 2015’s “Call Me Marianna,” which won best documentary at Krakow Film Festival.Bielawska has wanted to make a film about Villas – who was born in 1938 and died in 2011 – since 2016, but had to wait for the approval of the family, who collaborated on the script.
The film was initially planned to be produced by Munk Studio, but as the project grew and reconstructions of Poland in the 50s and 60s raised the budget to 3.2 million Euros (15 million PLN), Munk Studio stepped away from the project.
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