In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. Read More »
Tag Archives: Krzysztof Zanussi
Foreign Body / Obce cialo (2014) Krzysztof Zanussi, Riccardo Leonelli, Agnieszka Grochowska, Agata Buzek
Angelo and Kasia met in Italy in the Focolare Movement where their love Read More »
Our God’s Brother (1997) Krzysztof Zanussi, Scott Wilson, Christoph Waltz, Wojciech Pszoniak
Painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless. Read More »
From a Far Country (1981) Krzysztof Zanussi, Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »
The Illumination (1973) Krzysztof Zanussi, Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak
A man looks for the meaning of life through science, work, love, marriage, family, death, and spirituality. Read More »
The Constant Factor (1980) Krzysztof Zanussi, Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed Read More »
Camouflage (1977) Krzysztof Zanussi, Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul-Podlasky
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. Read More »
Serce na dloni / And a Warm Heart (2008) Krzysztof Zanussi, Bogdan Stupka, Szymon Bobrowski, Marek Kudelko, Drama, Comedy
Serce na Dloni (And a Warm Heart) is about two men with very different situations. One is a wealthy gangster named Konstanty (Bogdan Stupka). Read More »
Rok spokojnego slonca / Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Krzysztof Zanussi, Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka, Drama, Romance, War
Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia’s mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. Somehow the mother but not Emilia knows that there will only be one ticket. Realising that Emilia would never abandon her, the mother secretly throws away the daily doses given her by Emilia – and dies. Somehow Emilia discovers her mother’s sacrifice and refuses to benefit from it. She gives the ticket to a female friend and retreats to a cloister, living like the nuns except not wearing their dress and not having given a promise to stay forever. For decades she will apparently live in peace. Then a nun tells her that Norman has died and has bequeathed his fortune to Emilia. The nun suggests that Emilia gives the money to the cloister. But from that moment Emilia’s religious devotion flies away. She only thinks of going as speedily as possible to …
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