Blindness (2016) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 25, 2016

Original Title:
Zaćma

Alternate Titles:
Zacma: Blindness

Genres:
Drama | History

Production Companies:
Kino Świat
Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego

Production Countries:
Poland

Ratings / Certifications:
FR: 16  PL: 16 

Runtime: 110

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.

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Co-Producer:
Magdalena Zimecka

Conductor:
Paweł Lucewicz

Costume Design:
Krzysztof Łoszewski

Director:
Ryszard Bugajski

Director of Photography:
Arkadiusz Tomiak

Editor:
Milenia Fiedler

Makeup Artist:
Anna Gorońska
Tomasz Matraszek

Orchestrator:
Piotr Musiał

Original Music Composer:
Shane Harvey

Producer:
Ryszard Bugajski

Production Design:
Andrzej Haliński

Production Manager:
Mariusz Mielczarek

Screenplay:
Ryszard Bugajski

Set Decoration:
Teresa Gruber

Sound:
Marcin Kasiński
Maria Chilarecka
Kacper Habisiak

Sound Director:
Kacper Habisiak

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