As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Acting
Krystyna Janda's devastating dual performance as woman and actress.
Direction
Wajda's meta-structure blurs funeral, film set, and fever dream.
Cinematography
Golden hour soaked frames that feel like last light.
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Krystyna Janda
Marta / Actress
Pawel Szajda
Boguś K.
Jakub Mazurek
Boguś K. (voice)
Jan Englert
Doctor, Marta's Husband
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
Marta's Friend
Julia Pietrucha
Halinka
Roma Gąsiorowska
Janitor
Krzysztof Skonieczny
Stasiek
Paweł Tomaszewski
Bridge Player #1
Mateusz Kościukiewicz
Bridge Player #2
Marcin Łuczak
Bridge Player #3
Marcin Korcz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wajda made this as a tribute to his frequent muse Krystyna Janda after her cancer diagnosis; she died during post-production, making every frame unbearably prescient.
The film-within-film structure wasn't scripted—Wajda rewrote continuously as Janda's health declined, turning documentary grief into fictional art.
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