The Hexer (film)

Infobox Film
name = 'Wiedźmin


caption = Film poster
director = Marek Brodski
producer = Pawel Poppe Lew Rywin
writer = Michal Szczerbic
starring = Michal Zebrowski Zbigniew Zamachowski Maciej Kozlowski
music = Gzegorz Ciechowski
cinematography = Bogdan Stachurski
editing = Wanda Zeman
distributor = Heritage Films
released = flagicon|Poland 9 November 2001 flagicon|Germany 2 November, 2002
runtime = 129 min.
country = flagcountry|Poland
awards =
language = Polish
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:280382
imdb_id = 0300657

Wiedźmin""' (The Hexer in English) is a 2001 Fantasy film by director Marek Brodski, starring Michal Zebrowski as main character Geralt of Rivia. The story is based on the books and stories of The Witcher, by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.

The film is essentially the then-unreleased TV series chopped into about 2 hours, and received very poor reviews from both fans and critics. The 13-episode TV series came out the following year. The series was much more coherent than the confusing movie, but was still considered a failure mostly due to the film's already bad reputation and due to vast changes to the source material.

Plot

The plot of the movie was based on the 13 episodes that became the TV-series, which was released in 2002.

Cast

*Michal Zebrowski as Geralt of Rivia
*Zbigniew Zamachowski as Jaskier
*Maciej Kozlowski as Falvick
*Olaf Lubaszenko as Vespula
*Tomasz Sapryk as Dermot Marranga
*Kinga Ilgner as Renfri
*Grazyna Wolszczak as Yennefer
*Ewa Wisniewska as Queen Calanthe
*Andrzej Chyra as Borch Trzy Kawki
*Anna Dymna as Nenneke
*Agata Buzek as Pavetta
*Dorota Kaminska as Eithne
*Wojciech Duryasz as Old Wiedzmin (Duryasz)
*Józef Para as Druid of Kaer Morhen
*Daniel Olbrychski as Prince of Elfs

List of TV series episodes

ee also

* The Witcher - the series of fantasy short stories
* The Witcher universe
* The Witcher - the computer game

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300657/ Internet Movie Database page for the movie]
* [http://www.sapkowski.pl/film/ Unofficial website of the movie] Pl icon
* at the Witcher Wiki