A Year of the Quiet Sun
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
The Illumination
Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Camouflage
A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.
The Structure of Crystal
Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.
Ether
At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation…
The Constant Factor
A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
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Krzysztof Zanussi
Director
Danny Webb
as
David
Maja Komorowska
as
Emilia
Jerzy Nowak
as
English Doctor
Scott Wilson
as
Norman
Marcin Latallo
as
Franciszek's Baby Son
Agnieszka Holland
as
Member of Examination Committee
Joanna Pacula
as
Student
Daniel Olbrychski
as
Self
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