Wrongfully accused? This guy skips the lawyer and goes full vigilante. Polish cinema hits different.
When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal.
Acting
Malanowicz seethes with desperate, cornered-man intensity.
Direction
Trzos-Rastawiecki keeps it lean, mean, and morally murky.
Director
Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Stanisław Czermień
Elżbieta Kępińska
Krystyna
Henryk Bąk
Sitko
Henryk Hunko
Kunz
Bolesław Idziak
Captain Rzeszot
Janusz Kłosiński
Józek
Roman Kłosowski
Maks
Ryszard Kotys
Lieutenant Strzałka
Jerzy Matałowski
Witek Czermień
Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Tuś
Witold Pyrkosz
Czesiek Matusiak
Marta Ławińska
Waitress
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during a brief thaw in Polish cinema censorship, it channels societal frustration with state institutions through genre trappings.
The title 'Leprosy' refers to moral decay, not disease — a metaphor the censors almost blocked.
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