Zaćma, 2016, 110 min.
Director | Ryszard Bugajski | |
Screenplay | Ryszard Bugajski | |
Cinematography | Arkadiusz Tomiak | |
Music | Shane Harvey Rafal Smolen |
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Art Direction | Andrzej Halinski | |
Producer | Ryszard Bugajski |
Julia Brystygier | Maria Mamona | |
Sister Benedicta | Malgorzata Zajaczkowska | |
Father Cieciorea | Janusz Gajos | |
Prisoner | Bartosz Porczyk | |
The Inmate, Cerdinal Wyszynski | Marek Kalita | |
Mourner | Kazimierz Kaczor |
A lesser-known episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal, colonel of the Security Office, Julia Brystiger. She was nick-named Bloody Luna, as during interrogations she would torment the detained with exceptional cruelty.
In the early sixties, Brystiger appears at the Centre for the Blind near Warsaw, which is often visited by the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. His imprisonment by the communist authorities between the years 1953-1956 was supervised by Brystiger herself. Now she really wants to meet the Primate…