Agency:.Produced by Human Ark in co-production with Se-Ma-For, Archangel, Denis Friedman Productions, the National Film Board of Canada, Pwsftvit, Partyflex System, Kamil Polak and Zielony Pomidor. Agency - French program:.Animation and Youth Studio. Study guide available.

Direction, Kamil Polak ; script, Kamil Polak ; music, Irina Bogdanovich ; producer, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Zbigniew Zmudzki, Kamil Polak, Eliza Oczkowska ; co-producer, Luc Toutounghi, Denis Friedman, Pawel Partyka, Marcin Lunkiewicz ; executive producer, René Chénier, Viviana Queirolo-Bertoglio, Franck Malmin, Neil Mundy ; editing, Kamil Polak ; art design supervisor, Jacek Rokosz ; animation supervisor, Wojciech Wawszczyk ; technical director, Andrzej Majewski, Arkadiusz Rekita, Wojtek Jakubowski, Maciej Jurgielewicz, Michal Krupa, Georg Dumlein, Carolo Volpati ; animator, Dawid Bunio, Wojciech Jakubowski, Magdalena Osinska, Maciej Wojtkiewicz, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Jakub Tarkowski, Piotr Zyla ; 3D artist, Kacper Czyczlo, Piotr Golabek, Grzegorz Jankowski, Mateusz Jarmulski, Grzegorz Krol, Miroslaw Paczkowski, Aleksander Gajewski, Roberto Bianchi ; reference material D.O.P., Slawomir Berganski ; sound draft, Janusz Czubak ; music recording, Jaroslaw Regulski ; sound design, Luigi Allemano ; music re-recording, Luc Léger, Geoffrey Mitchell ; re-recording, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard, Shelley Craig.

Reference material actor, Cezary Iber.

Recorded 2010.

In 19th-century Poland, a traveller loses his way in the forest one stormy night, then witnesses the last days of a medieval town under attack by ruthless warriors. Are the knights on galloping steeds and the hail of fiery arrows mere figments of his imagination? The Lost Town of Switez transports viewers into an apocalyptic fantasy world. But out of the horror of a massacre, the most delicate flowers bloom. Screened at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, the film is based on an epic poem by renowned Polish writer Adam Mickiewicz. The grandiose tale is propelled by the music of Irina Bogdanovitch. Kamil Polak has used advanced computer-assisted animation techniques to create a rich visual universe inspired by religious iconography and Polish romantic painting.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Best Short Animated Film (from 10 to 50 min), 2011 First Award- Best Short Film, 2011 Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers' Award, 2011 Best Visual Effects Award, 2011 Best Animation, 2011 Silver Hobby-Horse for Best Animated Film, 2011 Pulcinella Award for Best Short Film, 2011 Best Animation Short- with a cash prize of $2,000 USD, 2011 « Jean-Luc Xiberras » Award for a first film, 2011 Best Animation, 2011

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).