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Bogowie


            Poland 1949:
In the aftermath of the WWII, in a war ravaged Poland, a trio consisting of a music composer/director/pianist Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), dance choreographer Irena (Agata Kulesza) and manager Kaczmarek (Borys Szyc) search the Polish countryside to record folk songs and dances. They meet several rural Polish people and record their traditional folk songs. Kaczmarek is skeptical about the outcome of the exercise as he feels that the songs sung in the rural dialects/languages will not sell with the rest of the nation. After they record the folk songs, they conduct auditions for singers and dancers to create a folk dance group at an abandoned palatial building. During these auditions, Wiktor meets Zula (Joanna Kulig) who impresses him with her talent for singing. After the auditions, the singers/dancers selected start rehearsing for a folk dance musical. During the rehearsals, Wiktor gets to know Zula better and comes to know that she has done some jail time for attacking her father when her father tried to sexually molest her.Warsaw, Poland 1951:
After two years of rehearsals, the dance group gives a performance at Warsaw which is very well received. Post the performance, Wiktor and Zula meet and have sex in a restroom. A few days later, Wiktor, Irena and Kaczmarek meet an important government official who asks them to create a play praising the communist government in Poland, its leaders and land reform policies. Irena protests, but Kaczmarek intervenes and says that they can do it. The dance group later performs this play but both Irena and Wiktor are unhappy with the government interference. Wiktor now decides to leave Poland for France. Before leaving, in one of their meetings, Zula tells Wiktor that she is reporting on Wiktor's activities to Kaczmarek as the government feels that Wiktor might be prone to subversive activities. She also tells him that she had to do this because she was under probation/parole and that she is telling him this because she loves him. Wiktor then decides to take Zula with him. He asks Zula to meet him near a border check post in East Berlin after one of their performances in there (This is before the Berlin wall was built). However Zula decides not to go at the last minute and even after waiting well past the appointed time when Zula does not arrive, Wiktor crosses over the border to West Berlin.Paris, France 1954:
Wiktor has started working in a jazz bar called L'Eclipse when he gets a letter from Zula that she is in Paris and wants to meet. They meet in a bar/cafe at night. While Wiktor walks Zula back to her hotel, he asks her why she did not accompany him to France. She replies that she felt she would not be good enough as an artist in France especially since she did not know the language and the people. They part with a passionate kiss.Yugoslavia 1955:
Wiktor comes to Yugoslavia to meet Zula where her dance troupe is giving a performance. He meets Kaczmarek while waiting in line to get in the performance hall. Kaczmarek informs Wiktor about the developments in the dance troupe. During the performance, Zula sees Wiktor but is unable to meet him as Kaczmarek has informed the police about Wiktor who then picked up from the performance hall is deported back to France.Paris, France 1957:
Back in Paris, Wiktor is now working as a composer producing soundtracks for movies. Zula comes to meet him at the studio. She tells him that she has left Poland legally by marrying an Italian but really wants to be with him. They have sex at Wiktor's place. Wiktor finds work for Zula as a singer at L'Eclipse where she sings songs in French. However, she feels jealous of Wiktor's former mistress Juliette(Jeanne Balibar) who is a poet and who writes songs for Zula to sing. During a party, Wiktor introduces Zula to Michel (Cédric Kahn) a music industry executive, to help Zula record an album to launch her career as a singer. Later she meets Juliette who denigrates Zula's lifestyle by saying that she must be feeling out of place by seeing the cafes, bars, cinemas, restaurants. She is also angry at Wiktor for telling Michel about her jail sentence in Poland and that she was a spy. She feels down and drinks too much and is brought back to the apartment by Wiktor in a drunken stupor. She records her album but she does not like it. She informs Wiktor that she has been sleeping with Michel behind his back. Wiktor slaps Zula in anger and she leaves Paris for Poland. He goes to the Polish embassy to get a visa to go get back Zula. However, he is discouraged by the consulate officer to return to Poland unless he spies for them. Wiktor refuses and tries to cross illegally into Poland.Poland 1959:
Wiktor was captured while crossing into Poland and is now sentenced to 15 years in prison. His hands are now broken due to the physical abuse and hard labor in the prison because of which he now cannot play the piano. Zula comes to visit him and tells him that she will get him released by any means necessary.Undisclosed location (probably Poland), 1964:
Wiktor has now been released from prison. Zula works as a singer and also has a child with Kaczmarek. It is revealed that Wiktor has been released after the intervention of a deputy minister who is an admirer of Zula. After a performance, she asks him to get her out for good. They travel to the countryside where they get married in a bombed out and abandoned church. At the end it is implied that the couple commit suicide by consuming tablets though this is left to the viewer's imagination.
    

Cold War

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka


            Michal, aged 34, is leading a prosperous, well-rounded life with his wife and son, a nice apartment, and a job in a large accounting office.
Unexpectedly, just before his son's first communion, Michal is sent by his employer to his home town to pick up a car imported from the USA. He goes reluctantly, hoping the business is carried out quickly. Michal picks up the car, but before leaving town he visits his father, with whom he's been in bitter conflict for years. At his wife's request, he invites his father to their son's first communion. The father rejects the invitation and the conversation ends in a quarrel. After this visit, an upset Michal gets into the car. His plans of a quick return are thwarted on the spot, however. Things take a different turn. There is a car accident and Michal has to stay in town a couple of days longer. He has to wait.
As he walks through the city streets, he encounters people he used to be close with, but who he left several years ago; he visits familiar places, so important for him in the past. Something awakens inside him during this trip; something he had long forgotten about. He tries to fight it. A banal trip turns into an emotional journey towards a life he no longer remembered.
    

Erratum

A Perfect Enemy

Warning


            Great Britain, 1953. Cold War lasts despite the summer. Stalin is dead, the British just finished celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, cinema halls are possessed by "The War of the Worlds".
30 years old Dora Szumski is an English woman married to a Polish immigrant Eryk. He is a former Polish Military officer for whom the existing power balance doesn't leave much choice. He can either be sentenced to death in his homeland or be an immigrant. After a failed suicide attempt he stays in Mabledon Park - a mental hospital for Polish ex-soldiers traumatized by the war.
Dora does not only sense what is the secret behind Eryk's illness. She also has some proofs... But the supervisor of the unit - Dr Lipman stops her from starting such serious talk with her husband. Dora, full of anxiety, drops her son Paul off at her sister's Sara and starts her old, worn-out motorcycle. We are following her trip into the heart of the mystery.
The unexpected encounter of spouses doesn't end in a hospital. Eryk runs away and turns up in a wayside inn rescuing his surprised wife from trouble. She wants her husband to immediately go back to the hospital, but finally agrees to go with him to the movies. Not aware of the deception, drugged with psycho-tropes she allows Eryk to kidnap her to a desolated sea shore.
It won't be just peaceful and romantic evening on the beach. Dora notices the disappearance of letters from her backpack, the ones which existence she hid from her husband after consulting with Dr Lipman. Photographs from Warsaw attached to letters proves that Eryk Szumski's Polish family survived the war and now, through Red Cross, they are looking for their older brother Roman. On the photos we can see a girl, a boy and a young, pretty woman... Eryk's fragile psyche cannot take such confrontation with facts. He gets a psychotic attack which turns into despair. Dora calms him with medicine, takes the motorcycle and goes to look for help. Words of a poem which she have found by Eryk are ringing in her head: "pity he was a liar... pity he was a traitor... her boy from the sea.."
Eryk, dazed, awaits her on the beach. His thoughts wander in other dimensions, filled with tragedy of a former soldier, father and husband. We quickly learn that this unusual couple is being sought by police. But the patient is not eager to go back to his hospital bed. To outwit a British policeman is a piece of cake for a Polish officer.
Meanwhile, the situation gets out of control. Dora's night telephone chat with Dr Lipman brings her closer to solving the mystery. Doctor reveals a story found in Eryk's diary that brings them into conclusion, that Eryk Szumski perished during the war and that the real name of our protagonist is Roman, Eryk's older brother. In September of 1939, as a Polish officer he was taken prisoner by Soviets. To avoid being executed, he took the uniform and the biography of his younger brother - a private from the same unit who was shot dead. Instead of being killed he gets to a labor camp and afterwards to the Anders Army. Now we find out that Roman is being sought by his Polish wife he was sure to be dead after the German bombing in Warsaw.
Full of forebodings, Dora heads to Sara's home but doesn't find there neither her sister nor little Paul. What she does find, is the already known poem, sketched hastily on a wall. She runs at full pelt to Szumski's house.
In front of the house we can see a parked police motorcycle with unconscious Sara handcuffed to the it. In a badly lit garage Dora faces the runaway Eryk-Roman to confirm who is in fact in the photos which were sent from Poland. In the background we can hear the police sirens.
But life has to go on, both in the post-war Poland as well as in Roman Szumski's the new homeland. Correspondence with Poland fades away with time and while being in Mabledon Park Szumski has a chance to put his two lives into one possible.
    

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