In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters Read More »
Tag Archives: Maja Komorowska
The Contract (1980) Krzysztof Zanussi, Leslie Caron
The events take place in a villa of a wealthy doctor on the occasion of the family wedding. Read More »
A Woman’s Decision / Bilans kwartalny (1975) Krzysztof Zanussi, Maja Komorowska, Piotr Fronczewski, Marek Piwowski
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life Read More »
Young Girls Of Wilko / Panny z Wilka (1979) Andrzej Wajda, Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Set in the late ’20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. Read More »
Inventory / Stan posiadania (1989) Krzysztof Zanussi, Krystyna Janda, Artur Zmijewski, Maja Komorowska
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Read More »
At Full Gallop / Cwal (1996) Krzysztof Zanussi, Maja Komorowska, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Karolina Wajda
In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. Read More »
Jak daleko stad, jak blisko / How Far, How Near (1972) Tadeusz Konwicki, Andrzej Lapicki, Gustaw Holoubek, Maja Komorowska, Drama
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
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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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