MS Slavic 7

MS Slavic 7 is a 2019 Canadian drama film directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell. It stars Campbell as a young woman who discovers a series of letters in a Harvard archive between her great-grandmother and a fellow Polish poet. The film derives its name from the library call number for the box that holds the letters.[1]

MS Slavic 7
Film Poster
Directed bySofia Bohdanowicz
Deragh Campbell
Produced bySofia Bohdanowicz
Deragh Campbell
Calvin Thomas
Written bySofia Bohdanowicz
Deragh Campbell
StarringDeragh Campbell
CinematographySofia Bohdanowicz
Edited bySofia Bohdanowicz
Deragh Campbell
Production
company
Lisa Pictures
Release date
  • February 12, 2019 (2019-02-12) (Berlin)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

It had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2019,[2] and screened at New Directors/New Films on March 30, 2019.[3]

Plot

After being appointed literary executor, a young woman named Audrey Benac uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Józef Wittlin corresponded from 1957 to 1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Set over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia's words.

Coming up against her aunt's disapproval as well as complications of access to the material, Audrey struggles to dig into an intimate past while facing her own existentially troubled present. Between silent segments of handling the letters at the archive and discursive monologues that articulate her findings, the film traces the emotional movement through the research process.

Cast
  • Deragh Campbell as Audrey Benac
  • Aaron Danby as Grzegorz
  • Elizabeth Rucker as Anya
  • Mariusz Sibiga as Noah

Production

Campbell plays Audrey Benac, a character she has inhabited twice before for Bohdanowicz in the films Never Eat Alone (2016) and Veslemøy's Song (2018).[4]

References
  1. Mobarak, Jared (February 13, 2019). "MS Slavic 7". The Film Stage. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  2. Young, Deborah (February 21, 2019). "'MS Slavic 7': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  3. Asch, Mark (April 1, 2019). ""No One's Going to Knock at Your Door and Say 'I Want to Hire You to Be a Filmmaker'": Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell on MS Slavic 7". Filmmaker. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  4. Mantagni, Ian (February 20, 2019). "Berlinale first look: MS Slavic 7 draws strength from the written word". Sight and Sound. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
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