Michał, a former musician who gave up his dreams and became an accountant, is asked by his boss to retrieve a truck he had shipped from America. The destination is Michael's former hometown, a port town which Michal left in a hurry years earlier. After retrieving the truck, Michał is involved in a serious accident which forces him to stay in town and reconcile several broken relationships.
Acting
Tomasz Kot's restrained devastation says everything.
Cinematography
Bleak port town beauty that mirrors Michał's inner desolation.
Direction
Lechki trusts silence; nothing is overexplained.
Director
Marek Lechki
Tomasz Kot
Michał Bogusz
Ryszard Kotys
ojciec Michała
Tomasz Radawiec
Zbyszek
Janusz Michałowski
policjant
Karina Kunkiewicz
Magda, żona Michała
Jerzy Rogalski
Nawrocki
Jerzy Matula
leśniczy
Władysław Barański
Antoni Michalak
Janusz Chabior
syn Antoniego Michalaka
Dorota Pomykała
kierowniczka noclegowni
Grażyna Krukówna
pielęgniarka
Andrzej Wilk
szef Michała
Mariusz Saniternik
bezdomny "Bohun"
Andrzej Gałła
szef złomowiska
Marian Czerski
ksiądz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tomasz Kot would later explode internationally in Cold War and Netflix's The Witcher, making this early dramatic turn fascinating to revisit.
The film captures a specific post-2008 Polish malaise—emigration dreams curdled into accounting spreadsheets, small ports emptied of purpose.
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