Blindness

Zaćma

Fot.Jacek Drygała
  • Description
  • Cast and crew
  • Duration: 109’
  • Genre: DRAMA, HISTORY
  • Resolution: HD
  • Year: 2016

The film shows an obscure episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal Colonel of the Office of Public Security, Julia Brystiger. Her nickname was "Bloody Luna" because during interrogations she tortured prisoners with extreme cruelty. At the beginning of the 1960s she appeared in Laski near Warsaw, in the Institute for the Blind, where the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, was also a frequent visitor. His imprisonment in the years 1953-1956 was supervised by none other than Julia Brystiger herself. During the difficult and tempestuous conversation with the Primate, Julia Brystiger rejects the communist ideology, asks for her crimes to be forgiven and for help in finding God.

  • Awards:
  • 2016 Polish Film Festival in America – Chicago Film Critics Award
  • 2017 New York Polish Film Festival – Beyond Boarders Award for Best Picture in the name of Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • 2017 New York Polish Film Festival – Award for Best Actor in the name of Elżbieta Czyżewska

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