In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved one? Are we really as good as we think about yourself? In Joanna's life is given forever. Today's friend suddenly becomes an enemy. Reflex heart turns into a curse. When one of the lonely woman takes care of little girls-czynkę do not know that from now on, her life will be sweet - bitter taste. Fate in this film is everything. Allows people to find that in a moment blow and lead to separation. After-forgives love, for which you have to pay a huge price. Fulfills the promise of happiness loneliness, brittle as glass.
Acting
Grabowska's face does everything dialogue cannot.
Direction
Falk builds dread through stillness, not spectacle.
Director
Feliks Falk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Poland's 'cinema of moral anxiety' tradition—films that interrogated national complicity during WWII.
Falk based Joanna on real Polish women executed for aiding Jews; the film's restraint mirrors their erased stories.
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