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Poland
2009, 101 min

Section: Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
Year: 2010

In 1952, during the peak of Stalinist terror in communist Poland, an encounter with the secret police changes life for three generations of women. Rich with references to Polish culture and cinema history, the genre-juggling The Reverse is clever, complex and spiked with a special kind of black humor.


Synopsis

In 1952, during the peak of Stalinist terror in communist Poland, an encounter with the secret police changes life for three generations of women in the good-looking, tonally sophisticated The Reverse. Rich with references to Polish culture and cinema history, the genre-juggling feature debut of prize-winning documaker Borys Lankosz is clever, complex and spiked with a special kind of black humor. Prim 30-year-old spinster Sabina works as a poetry editor in a Warsaw publishing house and shares a crowded apartment with her resourceful mother, Irena, and ailing but alert grandmother. Eager for Sabina to marry, the older women put forward a string of unsuitable candidates. But shy Sabina, whose heart flutters at the manly bare chests of soldiers glimpsed in cinema newsreels, finds her own macho admirer seemingly by chance.

Contacts

Studio Filmowe KADR
Pulawska 61, 02-595, Warsaw
Poland
Tel: +48 228 454 923
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.kadr.com.pl

About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section: Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
   
Director: Borys Lankosz
Screenplay: Andrzej Bart
Dir. of Photography: Marcin Koszałka
Music: Włodek Pawlik
Editor: Wojciech Anuszczyk
Producer: Jerzy Kapuściński
Production: Studio Filmowe KADR
Cast: Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Anna Polony, Marcin Dorociński, Adam Woronowicz, Bronisław Wrocławski, Łukasz Konopka
Contact: Studio Filmowe KADR

Guests

Jerzy Kapuscinski

Producer

Borys Lankosz

Film Director


Maciej Karpinski

Film Institution Rep., Film Institution Rep.

Wojciech Kabarowski

Producer


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