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