Anna Teresa Nowak

Quoi de plus banal et élémentaire que l’asepsie dans la médecine et la chirurgie d’aujourd’hui ? Pourtant, un homme courageux, le docteur Semmelweis, s’est battu contre l’obscurantisme de ses pairs pour tenter de faire prendre au sérieux ses recherches sur asepsie. C’était à Vienne, en 1860, dans une communauté scientifique qui choisissait l’immobilisme et l’insalubrité contre une découverte d’avant-garde. Ce film est le destin romancé d’un homme génial, écartelé entre le devoir et l’amour, d’un homme dont la vie se brise contre le mur de la médiocrité.

Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and post-socialist yuppies who after 1989 teamed up with their former enemies to exploit Poland ruthlessly.

The true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss from everyone surrounding him - his colleagues, pupils, even the ones who really care about him, because of the fear of losing his job and trying to save his dignity. Due to a genetic disorder, Kacper is faced with a very real possibility of permanent blindness. Initially heartbroken, he attempts to hide his health problems from his bosses driven by his desire to keep his job and to help his students with the final exams. The only person who knows about Kacper's problem is his best friend Wiktor. Meanwhile, Kacper enters a relationship with his colleague Ewa, and tries to help a rebel student Klara, who hides a secret of her own.

The laundress working at the doctor's house agrees to take her daughter out of the ghetto for a fee and get her settled with her family in the countryside. The old woman's attitude to the Jews is ambivalent but the action is unambiguous.

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.