Agata Trzebuchowska

Agata Kulesza

Dawid Ogrodnik

Jerzy Trela

Adam Szyszkowski

Halina Skoczyńska

Joanna Kulig

Dorota Kuduk

Natalia Łągiewczyk

Afrodyta Weselak

Mariusz Jakus

Izabela Dąbrowska

Artur Janusiak

Anna Grzeszczak

Jan Wojciech Poradowski

Konstanty Szwemberg

Paweł Burczyk

Artur Majewski

Krzysztof Brzezinski

Piotr Sadul

Lukasz Jerzykowski

Artur Mostowy

Marek Kasprzyk

Marek Wyrwicz

Jerzy Skolimowski

Paweł Pawlikowski

Christian Falkenberg Husum

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Ryszard Lenczewski

Ewa Puszczyńska

Eric Abraham

Aleksandra Staszko

Marcel Sławiński

Piotr Dzięcioł

Magdalena Malisz

Katarzyna Sobańska

Sylwester Kaźmierczak

Agata Trojak

Robert Stasz

Michał Kosterkiewicz

Claus Lynge

Jagna Dobesz

Michael Dela

Andreas Kongsgaard

Patryk Kowalczyk

Michal Truszkowski

Tomasz Sielecki

Tomasz Nowak

Martin Langenbach

Dorota Borkowska

Anna Kieszczyńska

Marek Wojtaszewski

Agata Wińska

Liliana Milewska

Jarosław Kamiński

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Grzegorz Dębowski

Alina Trybiło-Falana

Łukasz Żal

Agnieszka Holland

Radosław Rekita

Maciej A. Maciejewski

Drama

Opus Film

Phoenix Film Investments

Portobello Pictures

Poland

Denmark

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

A beautifully shot story about a young woman who was abandoned to the church as a baby and is now about to take holy orders. Before she fully commits, however, she decides to trace her birth family. Agata Trzebuchowska ("Anna") alights on her aunt Agata Kulesza ("Wanda") - a former pillar of the post war Polish communist legal establishment, but now a rather dissolute character prone to drinking and one night stands, to help her find the truth. Her family story has some grisly history to it, but together they travel their country in search of some answers. En route, they pick up a hitchhiker "Lis" (David Ogrodnik) who (genuinely) plays tenor sax in a band that has a gig in their hotel with with whom she bonds - after a fashion - until their search is concluded and yet more tragedy strikes our novice nun. This film is wonderfully enigmatic - it is quite difficult to date; the script is taut but sparing; the monochrome effects render it an atmosphere all of it's own and despite the inevitability of the whole thing, there is still a degree of optimism and sincerity seeping through the prevailing timbre of sadness.