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Lesser Evil

Original title: Mniejsze zło

2009 · 1h 50m

Directed by Janusz Morgenstern

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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....

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Cast

  • Lesław Żurek
    Kamil Nowak

  • Anna Romantowska
    matka Kamila

  • Janusz Gajos
    Mieczysław Nowak, ojciec Kamila

  • Wojciech Pszoniak
    pacjent

  • Magdalena Cielecka
    aktorka

  • Tamara Arciuch
    lekarka

  • Borys Szyc
    Mareczek Kolenda

  • Edyta Olszówka
    eseistka, siostra lekarki

  • Władysław Kowalski
    publicysta

  • Julia Kamińska
    poetka

  • Sylwia Oksiuta
    studentka

  • Olaf Lubaszenko
    esbek

  • Sławomir Orzechowski
    sekretarz POP w ZLP

  • Wojciech Mecwaldowski
    Andrzej, korespondent prasy szwedzkiej

  • Liliana Komorowska
    redaktorka z Polskiego Radia

  • Bożena Dykiel
    kierowniczka DPT w Radziejowicach

  • Daniel Olbrychski
    akowiec, kolega ojca

  • Krzysztof Kowalewski
    lekarz wenerolog