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Inventory (1989)

Inventory (1989)

Drama
Release Date: 1989, October 23
Directors: Krzysztof Zanussi
Countries: Germany, Poland
Production: Telewizja Polska, Telewizja Polska, Studio Filmowe Tor, Studio Filmowe Tor, Ziegler Film, Ziegler Film
Cast: Tadeusz Bradecki, Adam Bauman, Artur Barciś, Andrzej Łapicki, Krystyna Janda, Maja Komorowska, Artur Żmijewski

Overview:

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.

Keywords:

social realism moral dilemma love affair catholic guilt faith and religion existential drama european cinema post-war poland emotional realism eastern bloc polish drama human conscience love and morality intellectual life