Directed by: Joanna Rajkowska
Written by: Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Joanna Rajkowska
Director of Photography: Leszek Molski
Edited by: Marcelina Górka
Voiceover: Matthew Daniel
Music by: Mutant Goat (Ola Kozioł, Andrew Dixon, Suavas Lewy)
Sound design and mix: Franciszek Kozłowski
Marionettists: Andrew Dixon, Basia Ciacek, Joanna Rajkowska, Viktoriia Tofan
Marionettes created by: Joanna Rajkowska, Lili Bargłowska, Basia Ciacek, Andrew Dixon, Viktoriia Tofan
Animals created by: Viktoriia Tofan, Lili Bargłowska, Joanna Rajkowska
Sets: Andrew Dixon, Basia Ciacek, Viktoriia Tofan
Costumes: Wiesława Rozwonkowska, Konrad Pietruszyński
Props: Lili Bargłowska, Joanna Rajkowska, Konrad Pietruszyński, Rosa Dixon
Pottery: Danuta Jarecka
Colorist: Marcelina Górka
Visual effects by: Marcelina Górka
Marionette design consultant: Basia Poczwardowska
Production manager: Joanna Rajkowska
Production support: filmujemy.org
Publicity photography: Marek Szczepański
Executive producers: Agnieszka Sobocińska, PADO Studio Film – Dorota Przyłubska
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Source texts: Magicians, Theologians, and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicine and Folklore as Reflected in the Rabbinical Response by H. Jacob Zimmels (Goldston, 1952), The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza translated by Edwin Curley (Princeton, 1994)
Thanks to Theodore Block, Andrzej Rajkowski, Mariusz Widliński, Dori Midnight, Gunila Plank and her mother, Adrian Shirk, Katarzyna Górska, Andreas Staudinger, Uli Vonbank-Schedler, Arnold Rack, and Christian Berg for sharing knowledge, time and memory.
Joanna Rajkowska and Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman ©2020
Filmed in Nowogród
Joanna Rajkowska and Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman in conversation with David Riff