Members of the public and press gather outside the Presidential Palace on Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmiescie thoroughfare, Wednesday morning. photo: PAP/Rafal Guz
With third anniversary tributes marking the crash under way in the capital, Krauze will be accumulating documentary footage which he can later weave into the dramatic feature.
“Principal photography with actors will begin in June,” producer Maciej Pawlicki told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
“The film will be shot in Poland, the USA and Georgia,” he confirmed.
Today, Krauze's film crew will be focused on central Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmiescie thoroughfare [pictured above], where several thousand people are taking part in tributes organised by conservative opposition party Law and Justice.
Like Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Krauze has frequently declared that the April 2010 air crash was not an accident, but the result of sabotage.
Producer Pawlicki said that it was too early to reveal which actors were taking part in the film.
“However, I can tell you that there is a lot of interest among acting circles,” he claimed.
“A lot of people want to play in it,” he added.
Nevertheless, actor Marian Opania has already turned down the role of late president Lech Kaczynski.
Likewise, award-winning actor Daniel Olbrychski has criticised the conspiracy theory angle of the film.
“Of course every honest actor with a grain of sense should refuse [to play in the film],” he told television station TVN.
Noted composer Michal Lorenc has agreed to write the music for the film and cinematographer Michal Pakulski has also joined the project.
The premiere is scheduled for the fourth anniversary of the air disaster, on 10 April 2014.
The 73-year-old director Antoni Krauze recently won plaudits for his 2010 film Black Thursday (Czarny Czwartek). The film focused on the bloody communist crackdown of December 1970 against protesting workers in the Baltic city of Gdynia. (nh)