Lesser Evil
Mniejsze zło
Release: 2009-10-23
·Runtime: 110m
·★ 5.3
Drama
History
There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....
Production Countries
Poland
Production Companies
Studio Filmowe Perspektywa
Vision Film
Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
Cast
Halina Rowicka
as ciotka Kamila
Julia Kamińska
as poetka
Wojciech Mecwaldowski
as Andrzej, korespondent prasy szwedzkiej
Krzysztof Kowalewski
as lekarz wenerolog
Danuta Kowalska
as gospodyni
Sylwia Oksiuta
as studentka
Mirosław Zbrojewicz
as esbek
Grzegorz Wojdon
as wolontariusz
Mariusz Wojciechowski
as działacz "Solidarności"
Stefan Burczyk
as szachista w kawiarni ZLP
Joanna Moro
as studentka
Magdalena Cielecka
as aktorka
Borys Szyc
as Mareczek Kolenda
Daniel Olbrychski
as akowiec, kolega ojca
Maciej Mikołajczyk
as student
Wojciech Pszoniak
as pacjent
Zdzisław Rychter
as wędkarz
Marek Kossakowski
as student
Andrzej Zaborski
as działacz, kolega ojca
Waldemar Czyszak
as sąsiad Mareczka
Liliana Komorowska
as redaktorka z Polskiego Radia
Krzysztof Kolberger
as ksiądz
Wojciech Czerwiński
as esbek
Artur Chamski
as student
Anna Romantowska
as matka Kamila
Janusz Gajos
as Mieczysław Nowak, ojciec Kamila
Bożena Dykiel
as kierowniczka DPT w Radziejowicach
Michał Kowalski
as chory
Zofia Czerwińska
as kioskarka
Michał Sieczkowski
as Brunet
Lesław Żurek
as Kamil Nowak
Tamara Arciuch
as lekarka
Edyta Olszówka
as eseistka, siostra lekarki
Olaf Lubaszenko
as esbek
Sławomir Orzechowski
as sekretarz POP w ZLP
Marek Siudym
as towarzysz, kolega ojca
Wiktor Zborowski
as mężczyzna w kościele
Crew
Andrzej Haliński
Production Design
Magdalena Biedrzycka
Costume Design
Włodzimierz Niderhaus
Producer
Elżbieta Kurkowska
Editor
Janusz Morgenstern
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Michał Lorenc
Original Music Composer
Andrzej Ramlau
Director of Photography
Andrzej Bohdanowicz
Sound
Dorota Ostrowska-Orlińska
Producer