Directed by:
Grzegorz JarzynaCinematography:
Radosław ŁadczukCast:
Roma Gasiorowska, Lech Lotocki, Rafal Mackowiak, Maria Maj, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Aleksandra Popławska, Danuta Szaflarska, Adam Woronowicz (more)Plots(1)
The Mother, the Daughter, the Grandmother, the Neighbor, and many other nameless characters gradually come together in a room that initially looks as if it came out of a child's drawing and only gradually, fluidly changes from a post-communist era apartment into a TV studio. Their humorously absurd-sounding monologues, delivered in lofty language at an incredible clip, rarely connect into dialogue. Taken together, however, they create a picture of Poland as a society that still hasn't been able to recover from the loss of their former oppression, and is schizophrenically torn between feelings of national pride and shame. Leaflets offering discounts, television, beauty in its most commercial form; all of these artifacts become integral props in the film adaptation of the popular eponymous theater piece by Polish playwright Dorota Masłowska. Such is the backdrop for encounters between the nouveaux riches and a middle class living on the edge of poverty, and for three different generations, each with its own unique social trauma. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Roma Gasiorowska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/483/483249_be890c.jpg)
Roma Gasiorowska
Poland
Best movies:
Karol. Człowiek, który został papieżem (2005) (TV movie)
Oda do radości (2005)
Letters to Santa (2011)
![Lech Lotocki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/359/166359638_c60306.png)
Lech Lotocki
Poland
Best movies:
Żywie Biełaruś! (2012)
Gods (2014)
Run Boy Run (2013)
![Rafal Mackowiak](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/733/158733320_a5efdf.jpg)
Rafal Mackowiak
Poland
Best movies:
Leave No Traces (2021)
Drowsiness (2008)
All Our Fears (2021)
![Maria Maj](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/413/159413702_7426c5.jpg)
Maria Maj
Poland
Best movies:
The Debt (1999)
The Welts (2004)
Tydzień z życia mężczyzny (1999)
![Agnieszka Podsiadlik](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/632/162632232_11b8dd.jpg)
Agnieszka Podsiadlik
Poland
Best movies:
Jestem (2005)
Time to Die (2007)
Lynch (2011)
![Aleksandra Popławska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/506/159506036_a76af9.jpg)
Aleksandra Popławska
Poland
Best movies:
Underdog (2019)
Women of Mafia (2018)
Zero (2009)
![Danuta Szaflarska](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274700_168166.jpg)
Danuta Szaflarska
Poland
Best movies:
Korczak (1990)
Time to Die (2007)
Faustyna (1994)
![Adam Woronowicz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/349/164349676_7f1037.png)
Adam Woronowicz
Poland
Best movies:
How I Became a Gangster. True Story (2019)
Generał Nil (2009)
Najlepszy (2017)
![Katarzyna Warnke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/492/162492160_c206e6.jpg)
Katarzyna Warnke
Poland
Best movies:
Return to Legoland (2021)
Women of Mafia (2018)
Botoxx (2017)
![Magdalena Kuta](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/539/162539557_22706a.jpg)
Magdalena Kuta
Poland
Best movies:
Sexmission (1983)
Lynch (2011)
Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1985)