One man, six identities, and a ghost party you weren't invited to.
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Acting
Holoubek's six-role metamorphosis is unhinged brilliance
Direction
Konwicki's final film, pure uncompromising vision
Cinematography
Lithuanian fog that eats your sense of time
Director
Tadeusz Konwicki
Gustaw Holoubek
Hermit-Gustaw / Ghost / Gustaw-Konrad / Poet
Jolanta Piętek-Górecka
Maryla / Gustaw's Love / Girl / Virgin / Angel / Woman
Artur Żmijewski
Gustaw-Konrad
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska
Mrs. Rollison
Maja Komorowska
Sorcerer
Grażyna Szapołowska
Guardian Angel / Archangel
Henryk Bista
Senator
Piotr Fronczewski
Sobolewski
Tadeusz Łomnicki
Priest / Man
Janusz Michałowski
Father Piotr
Jan Nowicki
Ghost / Belzebub
Arunas Smailys
Adolf
Hanna Polk
Young Lady
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konwicki adapted from his own novel and Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve,' merging personal exile with Poland's suppressed Romantic tradition under Soviet rule.
The Day of the Dead setting isn't decorative—Konwicki uses Lithuanian pagan ritual as coded resistance, suggesting national identity persists underground like the lava itself.
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