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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)

Jun 12, 2022

3/5

[A] meticulously detailed thriller...

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jun 10, 2022

3/5

... 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.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

Jun 6, 2022

3/5

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.

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Apr 3, 2023

3.5

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.

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Hilary A White

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Jun 23, 2022

4/5

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

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Victoria Luxford

City AM

Jun 17, 2022

3/5

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.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Apr 8, 2026

The worldwide gross is $482,960.00.

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Pawel f

@RT52186197 Nov 3, 2025

Great film based on real events. Communist militia murders a citizen and tries to cover it up. It is unbelievable these days that things like that were possible. The film keeps you in suspense from beginning to end.

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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: Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Ceská Televize, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Les Contes modernes, Czech Film Fund, Canal+ Polska, Doco Digital, MagicLab, Arte, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Background Films, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Aurum Film
Rating: R (Violent/Disturbing Content|Language|Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Runtime: 2h 40m

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