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| 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[1] |
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. 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.
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The plot of the movie was based on the 13 episodes that became the TV-series, which was released in 2002.
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