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).
CountryPoland
Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
Production year2004
World premiere29 July 2004
Release date
29 July 2004
Poland
10
Worldwide Gross$213,505
ProductionAgencja Produkcji Filmowej, Canal+ Polska, Studio Filmowe Zebra
Also known as
Mój Nikifor, Az én Nikiforom, My Nikifor, Nikifor al meu, O Nikiforos mou, Мой Никифор, ニキフォル 知られざる天才画家の肖像, 我的野蠻畫家