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
Andrzej Zaborski
as działacz, kolega ojca
Halina Rowicka
as ciotka Kamila
Janusz Gajos
as Mieczysław Nowak, ojciec Kamila
Sylwia Oksiuta
as studentka
Liliana Komorowska
as redaktorka z Polskiego Radia
Mirosław Zbrojewicz
as esbek
Grzegorz Wojdon
as wolontariusz
Michał Kowalski
as chory
Zdzisław Rychter
as wędkarz
Artur Chamski
as student
Julia Kamińska
as poetka
Stefan Burczyk
as szachista w kawiarni ZLP
Maciej Mikołajczyk
as student
Joanna Moro
as studentka
Michał Sieczkowski
as Brunet
Waldemar Czyszak
as sąsiad Mareczka
Marek Kossakowski
as student
Anna Romantowska
as matka Kamila
Edyta Olszówka
as eseistka, siostra lekarki
Wojciech Mecwaldowski
as Andrzej, korespondent prasy szwedzkiej
Daniel Olbrychski
as akowiec, kolega ojca
Borys Szyc
as Mareczek Kolenda
Zofia Czerwińska
as kioskarka
Krzysztof Kolberger
as ksiądz
Wiktor Zborowski
as mężczyzna w kościele
Mariusz Wojciechowski
as działacz "Solidarności"
Danuta Kowalska
as gospodyni
Lesław Żurek
as Kamil Nowak
Wojciech Pszoniak
as pacjent
Magdalena Cielecka
as aktorka
Sławomir Orzechowski
as sekretarz POP w ZLP
Bożena Dykiel
as kierowniczka DPT w Radziejowicach
Tamara Arciuch
as lekarka
Olaf Lubaszenko
as esbek
Wojciech Czerwiński
as esbek
Krzysztof Kowalewski
as lekarz wenerolog
Marek Siudym
as towarzysz, kolega ojca
Crew
Andrzej Haliński
Production Design
Magdalena Biedrzycka
Costume Design
Włodzimierz Niderhaus
Producer
Andrzej Ramlau
Director of Photography
Andrzej Bohdanowicz
Sound
Elżbieta Kurkowska
Editor
Dorota Ostrowska-Orlińska
Producer
Janusz Morgenstern
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Michał Lorenc
Original Music Composer