

A fraud, a dead man's novel, and the revolution waiting to expose it all.
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Acting
Żurek's smug desperation is perfectly punchable
Production
Tworki psychiatric hospital: suffocating real location

Director
Janusz Morgenstern
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references Polish debates about 'choosing the lesser evil' under communism—collaboration as pragmatic necessity.
Director Morgenstern, a Polish New Wave veteran, shot guerrilla-style in actual Tworki hospital without full permits.