Christmas dinner where the guest of honor might be dead. Polish tension, no eggnog.
Martial law. Three women at the festive table await the return of Witek, with whom they have had no contact for ten days.
Acting
Three women carrying an entire regime's weight in glances.
Direction
Wosiewicz turns a dinner table into a pressure cooker.
Director
Leszek Wosiewicz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made seven years after the real December 1981 martial law in Poland, when Solidarity was crushed and thousands detained.
Wosiewicz originally developed this as a radio play — the enforced intimacy of the dinner table mirrors how information traveled in surveillance states.
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