Saga of the Ancient Forest. Part I: The Tale of a Wolf. Nothing Beats a Pack
Duration: 52’ 00”
Original format: 16:9 SD
Format after the revitalization: 16: 9 HD
Sound: 5.1, 2.0
Series idea, screenplay and direction: Bożena Walencik, Jan Walencik
Cinematography: Jan Walencik
Assistant: Andrzej Muśko
Sound: Bożena Walencik, Jan Walencik
Sound effects: Jan Walencik
Narrator’s tale: Bożena Walencik, Jan Walencik
Narrator: Krzysztof Gosztyła
Music: Michał Lorenc
Orchestration: Tadeusz Karolak, Michał Lorenc
Performing music: Polish Radio Orchestra
Conductor: Tadeusz Karolak
Soloists: Mohammad Rasouli – ney flute, Marcin Pospieszalski – keyboards, Marta Maślanka – percussion instruments, Agnieszka Bemowska – harp
Recording and ripping music: Rafał Paczkowski
Music consultation: Zbigniew Zbrowski, Małgorzata Przedpełska-Bieniek
Image and sound editing: Bożena Walencik, Jan Walencik
Assembly cooperation: Maciej Walencik
Image post-production: The Chimney Pot, Jędrzej Sabliński – Producer, Edyta Sęk, Rafał Golis – Production organization, Łukasz Huptyś – Color correction, Aleksandra Kraus – Negative transfer, Natasza Wróblewska – On-line assembly, Paweł Falkowski – Credits
Sound post-production: Zbigniew Malecki – Sound realization and development, Andrzej Kowal – Technology coordination, Sound & More Przemysław Gorlas, Michał Jankowski, Paweł Łuczak – Sound preparation
Production organization: Krzysztof Komar
Collaboration: Jerzy Jakutowicz
Laboratory: Documentary and Feature Film Studio in Warsaw
Negative: Kodak Vision Super 16
Animal breeding: Bożena Walencik, Jan Walencik. Krzysztof Komar
Collaboration: Jerzy Gwaj, Arkadiusz Arasim, Paweł Szymański, Basia Romanowska, Dariusz Poznański, Marcin Chrapowicki
Veterinary care: Mariusz Miniuk
Veterinary consultation: Andrzej G. Kruszewicz
Balloon pilot: Jerzy Czerniawski
Powered hang glider pilot: Zbigniew Kędziora
Co-operation: Białowieża National Park, Ministry of Education
Lead Editor: Ewa Chrabąszcz-Smoczyńska
Cast:
In a starring role: Bystry (Astute), the wolf male
Hunters: Tomasz Werkowski, Sergiusz Buszko, Włodzimierz Piekacz, Jerzy Glad, Andrzej Sieńczuk, Jan Ptaszyński
Beaters on the hunt: Jerzy Gwaj, Marek Glad, Jacek Werkowski, Karol Bajko
Sawers: employees of Kazimierz Swiertoka’s Forestry Services Plant
Poacher: Andrzej Muśko
The authors would like to thank the following for their help in making the film: employees of the Białowieża National Park, Białowieża Forest District, Hajnówka Forest District, Browsk Forest District, Department of Mammal Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, Wildlife Park in Kadzidłowo, Border Guard in Białowieża, Biebrza National Park, Krzysztof Bozik, Eugeniusz Pugacewicz, Janusz Bykowski. Special thanks to Zofia Żukowska
Production: Film Agency for Program 1 of TVP S.A.
Lead time: 2000–2007
End of production: 2007 (end of series production: 2009)
Revitalization to HD: 2015–2016
Premiere: 26.09.2010
Frames from the film (QUOTES).
For years since I started filming, this thought has been torturing me: What does it feel like to be a wild animal? A wolf, raven, bison, beaver, or ant? To overstep the boundaries of feeling of man and animal. To find in myself the purest ability to see, hear, and feel. Unafraid of the wildness of the forest, to feel being its part, the unbridled wildness.
QUOTE. Excerpt from the film Saga of the Ancient Forest. Part I: The Tale of a Wolf. Nothing Beats a Pack. Directed by Bożena Walencik, Jan Walencik. Source: TVP.