Blindness is the true story of Julia Brystiger, an infamous member of security in Stalinist Poland. She had many nicknames throughout her time, but none more enduring than ‘Bloody Luna’, which came about due to the particularly harsh way she would torture prisoners. By the end of her life however, she renounced communism, found salvation in religion and begged forgiveness for her sins. Blindness was nominated for a Golden Frog and a Golden Lion at Camerimage and the Polish Film Festival respectively.
Loosely based on the serial killer (so-called Vampire of Kraków) who tormented Poland in the 1960s, Koszałka’s directorial debut is more of a thriller than biopic, exploring the evil tendencies of people and how they come to be the...
Robert Bolesto’s script takes the famous artistic Beksiński family as inspiration and imagines what the dynamic between the members might have been. The head of the house, Zdzisław the gothic painter, video-records his family over...
One of the few war stories to begin on the last day of a war. Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is ordered to assassinate Szczuka (Wacław Zastrzeżyński), and though he has killed many during the war, Szczuka is not an easy one for Maciek,...
