The Windows (1996)
“Everything imaginable is truth.” Gustav Flaubert
2 min. trailer of The Windows fiction short
“Everything imaginable is truth.” Gustav Flaubert
Daniel Strehlau’s first short feature film based on his own script and storyboard from 1993. The film was ultimately shot in Warsaw, Poland in 1996 on 35 mm print, which Strehlau bought after earning money working on a construction site in Norway for three summer months each year in 1995 and 1996. At the time of writing the script in 1993 and shooting the film in 1996, Daniel Strehlau was unfamiliar with the film and had never seen Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”.
The film depicts a young writer sitting in front of his typewriter, struggling with a story, staring out the window. He perceives people in interrelated situations in various emotional states. The viewer sees love, solitude, tragedy, and death. At the end of the film, we discover that what they’ve just seen is a fiction in the mind of the writer.
The film will be reedited and scaled up from 35 mm to 4K quality.
Maestro Michelangelo Antonioni & Wim Wenders & Daniel Strehlau`s THE WINDOWS
It was a great honor and privilege that the great Maestro Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders were inspired by my 1993 storyboard and 1993 script for my short film “THE WINDOWS” as well as 1994 storyboard and 1994 script for my short “Misunderstandings”, provided to them by Mr. Krzysztof Kieslowski.
The “windows” was the perfect ending to the film by Maestro Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders BEYOND THE CLOUDS (“Al di là delle nuvole“). It was a film that I myself wanted to make at that time, or to make films about such emotions and feelings that they explored so deeply.
I wish we could have made this film together… but I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of the film with Maestro Antonioni in Warsaw in March 1996 and seeing him in person.
Enjoy watching! Daniel Strehlau
Script and directed by:
Daniel Strehlau
Author of photography:
Jacek Taszakowski
Production Manager:
Daniel Strehlau
Make – up artist:
Grzegorz Kasperski
Sound
Bartlomiej Wozniak
Edition:
Daniel Strehlau Krzysztof Miętek
Assistant of the director:
Włodzimierz Kuczyński
Cast:
In the role „X”: Daniel Strehlau Piotr Machalica Monika Sołubianka Renata Kossobudzka Maria Kleydysz Fabian Kiebicz Katarzyna Kowalska
The other cast:
Grzegorz Press Małgorzata Penczonek Jane Bronka Włodzimierz Kuczyński Mirosław Kamiński Marian Serwin
In the film were used parts of:
Blackstreet ft. Dr. Dre: “No digity” The Doors: “People are strange” Gustav Mahler: Symphony Nr. 1 D major and Symphony Nr. 5 C sharp minor
Special thanks:
Studio Buffo iti FILM STUDIO Operator of the street lamp crane Firmy LAMPOL Otrębusy, ul. Piasta 18 a Jarosław Grabowski Klub STODOŁA Agencja Aktorska GUDEJKO Centrum Ogrodnictwa Warszawa Studio Filmowe SKORPION
Other thanks to the apartments owners:
Mirek & Magda Kamińscy Zdzisław Kozłowicz Stan & Kiki Dwerniccy Marian Serwin Michał & Jane Bronka Elżbieta Milewska Andrzej Mauberg Piotr Mazuś Leszek Molski Agata Manowska
Production: THE WINDOWS FILM STUDIO, 14 Min, 35 mm, 1996.