The Hexer (film)

Wiedźmin
Film poster
Directed by	Marek Brodzki
Produced by	Paweł Poppe Lew Rywin
Written by	Michał Szczerbic
Starring	Michał Żebrowski Zbigniew Zamachowski Maciej Kozłowski
Music by	Grzegorz Ciechowski
Cinematography	Bogdan Stachurski
Editing by	Wanda Zeman
Distributed by	Heritage Films
Release date(s)	9 November 2001 2 November 2002
Running time	129 min.
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
Budget	$4,600,000

Wiedźmin (The Hexer or The Witcher in English) is a 2001 Fantasy film by director Marek Brodzki, starring Michał Żebrowski 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.^{[citation needed]} Instead, critics praised acting and music by Grzegorz Ciechowski.

There was no screenwriter's name in "The Hexer" credits. Michał Szczerbic, a few days before the premiere, demanded not to put his name there. He claimed, that authors of the movie deviated too much from his original script.

Plot

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

Cast

• Michał Żebrowski as Geralt of Rivia
• Zbigniew Zamachowski as Dandelion
• Maciej Kozłowski as Falwick
• Tomasz Sapryk as Dermot Marranga
• Kinga Ilgner as Renfri
• Grażyna Wolszczak as Yennefer
• Ewa Wiśniewska as Calanthe
• Andrzej Chyra as Borch Three Jackdaws
• Anna Dymna as Nenneke
• Agata Buzek as Pavetta
• Dorota Kamińska as Eithne
• Wojciech Duryasz as Old Witcher
• Józef Para as Druid of Kaer Morhen
• Daniel Olbrychski as Filavandrel

TV series

See The Hexer (TV series).

See also

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

External links

• The Hexer at Internet Movie Database
• Unofficial website of the movie (Polish)
• Original Soundtrack
• The Hexer at the Witcher Wiki
• 'Wiedźmin at AllRovi