Wroclaw, 1997. The city is threatened by flooding. Hospitals are being evacuated. Young ambitious psychiatrist Konstanty Grot takes a catatonic patient to the bus. He is a severe case, not responding to any attempts at contact. However, when the bus starts moving, he unexpectedly makes a gesture that awakens certain memories in the doctor. The psychiatrist decides to apply an unusual therapy.
Acting
Borys Szyc's unraveling is magnetic and uncomfortable.
Direction
Falk traps you in rooms with no escape, literal and metaphorical.
Production
The 1997 flood feels authentically desperate and chaotic.
Director
Feliks Falk
Borys Szyc
Dr. Konstanty Grot
Grzegorz Wolf
Pawel Płocki
Magdalena Walach
Renata Grot
Grzegorz Kwiecień
Intern Robert
Krzysztof Stroiński
Ambroziak
Marian Opania
Professor Dębicki
Ewa Ziętek
Renata's Mother
Elżbieta Karkoszka
Konstanty's Mother
Krzysztof Machowski
Ludwik Boreń
Aleksander Mikołajczak
Tadeusz Kański
Artur Steranko
Doctor Julski
Katarzyna Żak
Gabriela Czyżewska-Detmer
Nurse Kasia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1997 Central European flood was devastating reality for Wroclaw; Falk uses actual archival footage to ground his fiction in collective trauma.
Falk modeled Grot partly on real Polish psychiatric scandals of the 90s, where doctors' egos often eclipsed patient welfare—making the film's climax hit harder.
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