Directed by:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiScreenplay:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiCinematography:
Pawel EdelmanComposer:
Michal LorencCast:
Boguslaw Linda, Marek Kondrat, Cezary Pazura, Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Zbigniew Bielski, Tomasz Dedek, Ryszard Fischbach, Marek Frackowiak (more)Plots(1)
Not long after the Fall of the Wall, a group of former Polish Stasi agents are integrated into the police force. Franz Maurer (whose intelligence career was aided by his marriage to a Politburo member’s daughter) loses three of his men in the line of duty while fighting organised crime. Soon it becomes clear that the brutal slayings could only have been carried out by his ex-colleagues – and whoever is pulling the strings seems to be above the law. Maurer’s vendetta against his corrupt and cynical social environment serves as an allegory of post-Communist conditions. Capturing the essence of the era, this iconoclastic and provocative mafia thriller became an audience favourite within the new cinema of “immoral unrest”. (goEast - Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films)
(more)Cast
Boguslaw Linda
Poland
Best movies:
A Lonely Woman (1981)
Sekal Has to Die (1998)
Blind Chance (1981)
Marek Kondrat
Poland
Best movies:
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Day of the Wacko (2002)
With Fire and Sword (1999)
Cezary Pazura
Poland
Best movies:
Czarne stopy (1986)
Day of the Wacko (2002)
Three Colours: White (1994)
Janusz Gajos
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Interrogation (1982)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
The Promised Land (1974)
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Zbigniew Bielski
Poland
Best movies:
Europa Europa (1990)
Matka królów (1982)
How I Unleashed World War II (1970)
Tomasz Dedek
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Wielki bieg (1981) (TV movie)
Interrogation (1982)
Ryszard Fischbach
Best movies:
Pigs (1992)
Casimir the Great (1975)
Marek Frackowiak
Poland
Best movies:
With Fire and Sword (1999)
Pigs (1992)
Popieluszko (2009)
Tadeusz Szymków
Poland
Best movies:
Pigs (1992)
Rozmowy kontrolowane (1991)
Poznan 56 (1996)
Jerzy Bonczak
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Big Shar (1982)
Maciej Kozlowski
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Oda do radości (2005)
Generał Nil (2009)
Artur Żmijewski
Poland
Best movies:
Najlepszy (2017)
Świadek koronny (2007)
Pigs (1992)
Jan Machulski
Poland
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
Hit the Bank (1981)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Olaf Lubaszenko
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Korczak (1990)
A Short Film About Love (1988)
Edyta Olszówka
Poland
Best movies:
There and Back (2001)
Pigs (1992)
The Girl from the Wardrobe (2012)
Tadeusz Huk
Poland
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Camera Buff (1979)
Matka królów (1982)
Slawomir Orzechowski
Poland
Best movies:
Black Thursday (2011)
There and Back (2001)
Hi, Tereska (2001)
Jolanta Fraszynska
Poland
Best movies:
Pigs (1992)
Skazany na bluesa (2005)
Silence (2001)