BigList
Login / Sign up
Lesser Evil (2009)

Lesser Evil (2009)

Drama History
Release Date: 2009, October 23
Directors: Janusz Morgenstern
Countries: Poland
Production: Studio Filmowe Perspektywa, Vision Film, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych
Cast: Olaf Lubaszenko, Zofia Czerwińska, Borys Szyc, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Mirosław Zbrojewicz, Janusz Gajos, Zdzisław Rychter, Michał Sieczkowski, Liliana Komorowska, Julia Kamińska, Sławomir Orzechowski

Overview:

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....