Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2010 / Rewers / Poland 2009
In 1952, during the peak of Stalinist terror in communist Poland, an encounter with the secret police changes life for three generations of women. Rich with references to Polish culture and cinema history, the genre-juggling The Reverse is clever, complex and spiked with a special kind of black humor.
In 1952, during the peak of Stalinist terror in communist Poland, an encounter with the secret police changes life for three generations of women in the good-looking, tonally sophisticated The Reverse. Rich with references to Polish culture and cinema history, the genre-juggling feature debut of prize-winning documaker Borys Lankosz is clever, complex and spiked with a special kind of black humor. Prim 30-year-old spinster Sabina works as a poetry editor in a Warsaw publishing house and shares a crowded apartment with her resourceful mother, Irena, and ailing but alert grandmother. Eager for Sabina to marry, the older women put forward a string of unsuitable candidates. But shy Sabina, whose heart flutters at the manly bare chests of soldiers glimpsed in cinema newsreels, finds her own macho admirer seemingly by chance.
101 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Borys Lankosz
/ Screenplay Andrzej Bart
/ Dir. of Photography Marcin Koszałka
/ Music Włodek Pawlik
/ Editor Wojciech Anuszczyk
/ Producer Jerzy Kapuściński
/ Production Studio Filmowe KADR
/ Cast Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Anna Polony, Marcin Dorociński, Adam Woronowicz, Bronisław Wrocławski, Łukasz Konopka
/ Contact Studio Filmowe KADR
Studio Filmowe KADR
Pulawska 61, 02-595, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 228 454 923
E-mail: [email protected]
Jerzy Kapuscinski
Producer
Borys Lankosz
Film Director
Maciej Karpinski
Film Institution Rep., Film Institution Rep.
Wojciech Kabarowski
Producer
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