My Nikifor
2004 · 95 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 881 VOTES · DIR. Krzysztof Krauze
Overview
From his birth in 1895 through his death in 1968, the gifted Polish naïve artist Nikifor Krynicki (AKA Epifan Drowniak) lived his life and eked out a career cloaked in obscurity - a casualty of both his extreme speech impediment (his tongue was attached to the roof of his mouth, which prompted others to errantly tag him as mentally incapacitated) and his self-effacing decision to sell the majority of his work for meager amounts. Krzysztof Krauze's biopic My Nikifor travels to the tail end of Krynicki's (Krystyna Feldman) life journey, dramatizing the period that surrounded his interaction with the well-established artist Marian Wlosinski (Roman Gancarczyk).
Dialogue Timeline — 602 lines
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00:01:01 Where were you Sep. 16 this year?
00:06:57 Well... I'm to be the boss of the Culture Dept.
00:09:12 A sleepy man... like me.
00:13:05 He could've painted me facing forward.
00:17:09 - He has hooves... and a tail. - You too...
00:21:14 And your father?
00:23:20 Grooming for a wedding, huh?
00:26:44 He sits around here for days, yes? Eats two lunches a day?
00:29:03 His mother would carry water to pensions.
00:32:43 - Put an end to this. - That's what I'm doing.
00:37:28 If a painter wants to paint, he has to be healthy.
00:41:51 One needs to work.
00:45:22 You want to tell me something?
00:49:18 - One wall may be of bricks... - It'll look ugly!
00:55:43 The soldiers took away the whole village... and Nikifor too.
00:59:31 Oh, my friend.
01:02:06 Everything will fall in place. Just help me.
01:07:34 - What is it? - I don't need TB.
01:09:47 - Not much! - There was no more.
01:13:34 Why didn't you call from the station? I'd have sent a car.
01:16:30 Excuse me.
01:19:16 Nikifor wants to go to Budnik.
01:21:40 - What sets? - Big and small, all kinds.
40:00:00 and drawings; considered one of the most