Magdalena Marzec-Mróz
Film producer with extensive experience in documentary filmmaking and television production. For many years active in the audiovisual industry, she specializes in managing projects at all stages of production, from development through post-production.
At Wonder Films, she is currently producing the documentary film “Letter to the Future”, directed by Małgorzata Świderska.
“Letter to the Future” is a poetic documentary about Adam (Akara) Karpiński — a glider pilot, engineer, mountaineer, and a pioneer of Polish Himalayan climbing. His life becomes a metaphorical letter to the future — a record of faith in the meaning of dreams, courage, and visions far ahead of their time.
The narrative unfolds around a letter written by Adam — a personal message that returns as the film’s central motif. It is not only the testament of a man of the mountains, but a manifesto: “If I ever die in the mountains, do not cry…”
The film opens in silence — amid snow, frost, and breath in the cold air.
We journey back to Adam’s childhood: a boy dreaming of flight. As a young glider pilot and constructor, he sets records, but over time his fascination shifts toward the mountains. Solitary climbs in the Tatra Mountains, passion, resilience, and visionary ideas merge into one path. Adam plans the first Polish expedition to the Himalayas, writes, designs, dreams — as if foreseeing the future of Polish alpinism.
In the mountains he meets Wanda — a climber and a doctor. Their relationship grows into love. In the Andes, Adam conquers a virgin peak and names it Cerro Wanda, in honor of his wife. As an engineer, he designs innovative climbing equipment and envisions transport gliders carrying loads beneath Mount Everest. He dreams of ideas that will only become reality decades later.
The film’s climax is the 1939 expedition to Nanda Devi East. The world stands on the brink of war, but Adam chooses a path toward the summits — literally and metaphorically. Together with his companions, he reaches the peak, but never returns. They perish on the descent. Their bodies are never found, yet their trace remains.
The epilogue reveals that Karpiński’s ideas endured. His letter — his life, dreams, and choices — is unknowingly read by subsequent generations of climbers. The film ends with the emptiness of a mountain trail and the words:
“Perhaps not everything must be achieved. Perhaps it is enough to have the courage to set out.”
This is a film about a man who did not only want to conquer peaks, but to leave something behind for those who would follow. About a dream that does not die — even when its author disappears.
The project was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute under the Operational Programme: Film Production, Priority II: Development of Documentary Projects.