''The Last Family'' ( pl, Ostatnia rodzina) is a 2016 Polish biographical film directed by

Jan P. Matuszyński Jan Paweł Matuszyński (; born 23 April 1984, Katowice) is a Polish film director and a producer of documentary films. Life In 2012, he graduated in Film and Television Directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. In 2014, he ...

. The film won the Golden Lions for best film at the 2016 Gdynia Film Festival.

Plot

As renowned painter Zdzislaw Beksinski tapes everything with his camcorder, a 28-year family saga unfolds through his disturbing dystopian paintings, family feuds, near-death experiences, love-hate relations and consecutive funerals. The true story of the artistic Beksinski family: Zdzislaw, his wife Zofia and their talented yet trouble-making son

Tomasz Tomasz is a Polish language, Polish given name, the equivalent of Thomas (given_name), Thomas in English language, English. Notable people with the given name include: *Tomasz Adamek (born 1976), Polish heavyweight boxer *Tomasz Arciszewski (1877&n ...

Cast

* Andrzej Seweryn - Zdzislaw Beksinski *

Dawid Ogrodnik Dawid Ogrodnik (born 28 May 1986, Wągrowiec (german: Wongrowitz) is a town in west-central Poland, from both Poznań and Bydgoszcz. Since the 18th century it has been the a seat of a powiat. Administratively it is attached to the Greater Pol ...

- Tomasz Beksinski *

Aleksandra Konieczna Aleksandra Konieczna (born 13 October 1965) is a Polish film and stage actress. She is a three-time Polish Film Award winner for her roles in '' The Last Family'' (2016), ''A Cat with a Dog'' (2018) and '' Corpus Christi'' (2019). Her television ...

- Zofia Beksinska *

Andrzej Chyra Andrzej Chyra (born 27 August 1964) is a Polish actor and a member of the Polish Film Academy and the European Film Academy. Life and career He graduated from high school and in 1987 he graduated from the Acting Theater School in Warsaw. In 199 ...

- Piotr Dmochowski * Zofia Perczynska - Stanislawa Beksinska * - Stanislawa Stankiewicz * Alicja Karluk - Patrycja *

Magdalena Boczarska Magdalena Jadwiga Boczarska (; born 12 December 1978) is a Polish actress who has appeared in more than 25 feature films since 2001. She has twice received the IFFI Best Actor Award (Female): Silver Peacock Award, at the 41st and the 44th Intern ...

- Ewa * - Helena

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ...

, the film has an aggregate score of 75% based on 6 positive and 2 negative critic reviews.

References

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* * 2010s biographical films Polish biographical films {{Poland-film-stub