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R

2021

2h 40m

Drama

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Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk -- a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek -- the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state. The oppressive regime used its whole apparatus -- the secret service, militia, the media and the courts -- to squeeze Jurek and other people close to the case, including his parents and Przemyk's mother, Barbara.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

[A] meticulously detailed thriller...

Rated: 3/5

Jun 12, 2022

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

... A film that believes in the corrective power of news media (the BBC World Service is praised). But it’s also occasionally flushed with its own importance, and is easily 20 minutes too long.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 10, 2022

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

In the end, this film is never uninteresting but fails to gather enough pace or power for the slog of the marathon, 160-minute running time.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 6, 2022

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

If Matuszyński’s film tends towards soap opera in places and could definitely do with a trim here and there, its long running time does allow the grind of what happens to play out in ways that emphasise the sheer slog of it.

Rated: 3.5

Apr 3, 2023

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Hilary A White

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Poland’s entry for the recent Oscars is directed by Jan P Matuszyński with an understandably forensic eye for detail.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 23, 2022

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Victoria Luxford

City AM

An earnest attempt to bring to the world a harrowing chapter in the country’s history, and a warning as to the dangers of unchecked power.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 17, 2022

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Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk -- a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek -- the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state. The oppressive regime used its whole apparatus -- the secret service, militia, the media and the courts -- to squeeze Jurek and other people close to the case, including his parents and Przemyk's mother, Barbara.

Director: Jan P. Matuszynski
Producer: Leszek Bodzak, Aneta Cebula-Hickinbotham
Screenwriter: Kaja Krawczyk-Wnuk
Production Co: Background Films, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Arte, MagicLab, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée, Les Contes modernes, Doco Digital, Ceská Televize, Aurum Film, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Czech Film Fund, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Canal+ Polska
Rating: R (Violent/Disturbing Content|Language|Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Runtime: 2h 40m

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