Project Description
Storyline
The animated documentary feature-length “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while on hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Ivanov, narrates Crulic’s ironic voice over from beyond the grave. A strong visual style, the result of beautiful hand drawn, collage, stop-motion and cut-cut animation techniques, blend to create a striking, surprisingly integrated and memorable film..
Festivals & Awards
CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND had its world premiere in competition at Locarno Film Festival 2011, was selected in over 140 festivals including Annecy, Pusan, London BFI, CPH DOX, Telluride, New Directors / New Films, Istanbul IFF.
The movie got the Cristal Award in Annecy, and more than 35 prizes at other festivals like Special Mention Don Quixote in Locarno, Audience Award ANIMA, Belgian Television Award ANIMA, Special Prize of the Human Rights Jury in Istanbul, Best long feature in Animator (Poznan), Best Movie Monstra, Cabrito de Plata – Best Long Animated Feature Monterrey, Best movie Milwaukee Film Festival, Special Jury Prize at Gdynia Film Festival
Crystal Jury Special Prize SICAF (Seoul), Best Long Feature CICDAF (Changzhou), SILVER PUMA Award for the Best Director- FICUNAM – Mexico, Audience Award FICUNAM – Mexico, Main Prize at Gdansk Doc Film Festival, Best film (Sopot), Best Director Mlodzi I Film, Amnesty Award in CPH DOX, Grand Prix and the Trophy of the Romanian Filmmakers Union , Special Jury Prize (Siver Dolphin) in Festroia, Special Prize at Se-Ma-For Film Festival among others.
Project Details
- Genre: Fiction Film / Animated Documentary
- Status: Completed
- Production: Aparte Film
- Co-produced by: Fundacja im. Ferdynanda Magellana and Romanian Ministry of Cultureand the Romanian Heritage/ Editura Video, Krakow Festival Office
- Co-financed by: Romanian National Centre of Cinema, Polish Film Institute Krakow Regional Film Fund
- With the support of: HBO Romania, Romanian National Television, Soros Foundation Romania
- Scriptwriter & director: Anca Damian
- Narrators: Vlad Ivanov,Jamie Sives
- Artwork and Animation: Dan Panaitescu, Raluca Popa, Dragos Stefan, Roxana Bentu, Tuliu Oltean
- Music: Piotr Dziubek
- Sound: Piotr Witkowski, Sebastian Włodarczyk
- Producer: Anca Damian
- Co-Producer: Arkadiusz Wojnarowsky
- Editor: Catalin Cristutiu
- Project Website: www.crulic.ro
Related News
CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND becomes a classic
Crulic- The Path to Beyond was included in the retrospective of 30 years of Romanian Cinema in United States. It was shown at Film Forum New York (Nov 15-26, 2019), as well as in 2020 in other cities in US.
Romania – France Season 2019 presents CRULIC at the French Cinemateque in Paris
The French public will have a new chance to watch CRULIC – THE PATH TO BEYOND (2011, Anca Damian) during [...]
ANIMAC – Spain and FICAM Meknes- Morocco
Two retrospectives of the animated documentaries of Anca Damian, Crulic - The Path to Beyond and The Magic [...]
September 2013
We are proud to announce that Crulic The Path to Beyond went in more than 140 festivals, and received [...]
9 June 2012
Aparte Film is pleased to announce that „Crulic – The Path to Beyond”, directed and produced by Anca Damian, won the Crystal Prize [...]
19 March 2012
"Crulic - The Path to Beyond received the Grand Prix and the Trophy of the Romanian Filmmakers Union (UCIN) for 2011 [...]
1 March 2012
"Crulic - The Path to Beyond" got SILVER PUMA Award for the Best Director- FICUNAM - Mexic, and [...]
16 November 2011
Till mid November 2011 the movie "Crulic The Path to Beyond" got the following prizes:- Special Mention [...]
8 September 2011
Crulic - The Path to Beyond is selected in the International Competitions of Namur IFF, London BFI, Warsaw IFF, [...]
2 September 2011
Crulic - The Path to Beyond has the American premiere in Telluride International Film Festival.
1 August 2011
Crulic - The Path to Beyond will open Animest IFF.
13 July 2011
"Crulic- The Path to Beyond" will have the World premiere in the International Competition of the Film Festival Locarno.
July 2010
"Crulic - The Path to Beyond" received financing from Krakow Regional Fund.
April 2010
„Crulic –The Path to Beyond” the animated long feature documentary starts its graphic design. [...]
December 2009
Polish Film Institute granted the documentary on "Crulic" with the amount of 50,000 Euro.
November 2008
Crossing Dates was selected in competition at Cottbus International Film Festival (Germany) and at Goa International Film [...]
Related Press
„LE DOC S’ANIME !”
Source: tenk.fr
Author: Eva Tourrent et Jérémie Jorrand
Dans "Le voyage de M.Crulic", Cristal du meilleur long-métrage cette année-là, la réalisatrice roumaine Anca Damian retrace l'effacement progressif d'un individu face un système judiciaire kafkaïen.
La Crítica de SensaCine – Crulic, camino al más allá
Source: SensaCine.com
Publish Date: 9 July 2015
Author: Beatriz Martinez
Género animado para una terrible historia real. Un impresionante artwork que funciona a modo de collage sensitivo que estalla con toda su fuerza expresiva para narrar de forma original esta historia que va más allá de la crónica de sucesos, del escándalo político y gubernamental para instalarse en el terreno del intimismo.
Collage de una muerte anunciada
Source: www.los35milimetros.wordpress.com
Publish Date: 3 JULIO 2013
Author: DAVID GONZÁLEZ
Damian imagina la imaginación: en Crulic, camino al más allá se apodera de todas las técnicas posibles de animación para crear un conjunto complejísimo, arrebatador y arrebatado, que demuestra que en la animación no hay nada escrito -ni dibujado
El delito de pedir justicia Crulic, el camino hacia el más allá
Source: CASA BALCANES
Publish Date: 28.06.2013
Técnicas que van desde la fotografía animada y el collage, pasando por la animación tradicional o stop motion, que hacen muy dinámico el relato en primera persona de una víctima de un sistema que no le dio la oportunidad de defenderse.
El muerto que habla
Source: Udual
Publish Date: 28 June 2013
Crulic, entre otras cosas, viene a confirmar la eterna vigencia de lo que contó Kafka en El proceso.
Voyage au bout de l’injustice
Source: Politis
Publish Date: 13 décembre 2012
Author: Christophe Kantcheff
La liberté esthétique de l’ensemble permettant de nouer des tonalités différentes, la douceur, la souffrance et, de bout en bout, une subtile auto dérision et un goût pour le sarcasme.
LE VOYAGE DE MONSIEUR CRULIC D’ANCA DAMIAN
Source: Arte
Publish Date: 12 décembre 2012
Author: Olivier Père
Un parti-pris esthétique qui se révèle très puissant et confère au film une atmosphère inédite, proche de l’hallucination
DRAME KAFKAIEN Le Voyage de Monsieur Crulic RÉALISÉ PAR ANCA DAMIAN
Source: www.critikat.com
Publish Date: 11 décembre 2012
Author: Carole Milleliri
Avec Le Voyage de Monsieur Crulic, Anca Damian réalise un film politique puissant, où drame et absurdité viennent dire la violence d’un racisme pernicieux et d’une justice à deux vitesses, sans jamais tendre vers un propos vindicatif.
“Le Voyage de Monsieur Crulic”: mort d’un Roumain en mode Kafka
Source: Le Monde
Publish Date: 11 décembre 2012
Author: Jacques Mandelbaum
Le Voyage de Monsieur Crulic, de la Roumaine Anca Damian, est incontestablement la plus belle réussite depuis quatre ans.
[Critique] Le voyage de Monsieur Crulic
Source: www.cinecoulisses.fr
Publish Date: 10 décembre 2012
Author: Par Matthieu
Le voyage de Monsieur Crulic nous bouleverse par son humanité et son incroyable inventivité visuelle.
Le voyage de monsieur Crulic
Source: Studio Ciné Live
Publish Date: 10 décembre 2012
Author: Xavier Leherpeur
Ce refus de l'unité formelle permettant au récit de s'évader du réalisme pour composer un surréalisme qui, ponctué par l'ironie désespérée de lanarration et de la coloration musicale, touche à l'universalité de l'engrenage tragique d'une justice kafkaïenne.
“Le Voyage de M. Crulic” ou la vie pour une bourse
Source: Télérama
Publish Date: 8 décembre 2012
Author: Marc Belpois
Chaque séquence est une invention visuelle.
Crulic: The Path to Beyond – Film Review
Source: Vancouver Weekly
Publish Date: 19 September 2012
Author: Anja Savcic
For me, this film has secured a spot as one of the most visually stunning I have witnessed.
‘Crulic,’ ‘Approved’ top Annecy
Source: Variety
Publish Date: 9 June 2012
Author: John Hopewell, Elsa Keslassy
ANNECY CRYSTAL AWARD "Crulic - The Path to Beyond," (Anca Damian, Romania)
Annecy: documentaire judiciaire, Alzheimer et animisme, l’animation ose
Source: http://sotinel.blog.lemonde.fr
Publish Date: 07 juin 2012
Author: Thomas Sotinel
Déjà présenté à Locarno l'été dernier, le film retrace la fin d'un Roumain, accusé à tort de vol en Pologne.
Anca Damian – Crulic The Path to Beyond
Source: https://culture.pl
Publish Date: 14 may 2012
Author: Marta Jazowska
Displaying, as says Filmmaker’s Howard Feinstein notices, "a distinctly Eastern European dry humor manifest in the drawings and in the rapid, highly detailed voiceovers", the film combines techniques of animation, fiction and documentary in a form that, as he continues "is a brilliant choice to tell a tragic true story".
The Top 5 Criticwire Recommendations from ND/NF 2012
Source: Indiewire
Publish Date: 04 April 2012
Author: Steve Greene
The surprise here is that writer/director Damian has tasked five of her country’s most talented animators to weave Crulic’s tragic tale as an unfolding tapestry that’s as memorable, beguiling, and on occasion as majestic, as anything we’ve seen come out of Romania.
New Directors/New Films 2012: 10 Films Indiewire Thinks You Should See
Source: Indiewire
Publish Date: 21 March 2012
Authors: Peter Knegt, Eric Kohn, Bryce J. Renninger, Nigel M. Smith
Damian challenges the documentary form and stuns with her cut-out animation in a film that is sure to intrigue ND/NF audiences.
A MAKER’S DOZEN: NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS
Source: Filmmaker Magazine
Publish Date: 20 March 2012
Author: Howard Feinstein in Festival Coverage, News
Technically a documentary, this brilliant medley of animation and cutouts, with slivers of live action tossed in, is creative interpretation at its most sublime.