IFFI closed its curtains with the International Premiere of veteran Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi’s enigmatic film, Perfect Number.

The film is about a young Mathematician who meets his long lost cousin who is wealthy and this meeting changes their lives in various ways.

“This film tries to signal that there are problems which are not necessarily linked to the material world.” said Director of film Perfect Number Krzysztof Zanussi. 

Speaking at a press conference organised on the side-lines of 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), he said that there may be other reality beyond the material world. And science is not denying it anymore since we have quantum physics which realises that all this Newton-era is over and all these things which were so certain in 19th century are not certain anymore. This is all now in question and this may be the impulse,why I made the movie, he added further.

IFFI closed its curtains with the International Premiere of veteran Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi’s enigmatic film, Perfect Number, which searches for philosophical answers in the mathematical theories of quantum physics and calculus to push the limits of physics, where Science meets Transcendence.  

The film is about a young Mathematician who meets his long lost cousin who is wealthy and this meeting changes their lives in various ways.

Talking about the inspiration behind making the movie, Krzysztof Zanussi said, “It is inspired by a real person. There is a mathematician in St Petersburg, Russian-Jewish who got an award of 1mn dollars. He sends back the check, saying it is distracting and he doesn't want to be distracted.”