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An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
Daze
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Maria Pakulnis Władysław Kowalski Marzena Trybała Krzysztof Kolberger Marcin Troński Wojciech Wysocki Maria Chwalibóg Elżbieta Kępińska Anna Milewska Anna Mozolanka Ewa Sałacka Jerzy Karaszkiewicz Igor Przegrodzki Bogusław Sobczuk Grzegorz Warchoł Stanisław Brudny Gustaw Lutkiewicz Paweł Nowisz Krzysztof Zaleski Ryszard Barycz Stanisław Bieliński Zbigniew Buczkowski Barbara Bursztynowicz Piotr Cieślak Stanisław Gawlik Teodor Gendera Andrzej Grabarczyk Piotr Grabowski Janusz Józefowicz Show All…
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Poland
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20 Feb 1989
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Based upon the true story of well-known Polish actor Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski's (renamed Władysław Janota-Czerkański in the film, and played by Władysław Kowalski) WWII experiences, Daze is relentlessly depressing. On top of the grim reality of the complex wartime existence of Junosza-Stępowski, who became a controversial figure for some collaboration with Nazi theater programs, despite his refusal to appear in cinematic propaganda, the film also documents the nearly crippling cocaine addiction* suffered by his wife, Jadwiga Galewska (renamed Jadwiga Czerkańska, and played by Maria Pakulnis), an affliction which hangs over every moment of the story like a dark cloud, and which is presented as the reason for many of Junosza-Stępowski's moral compromises.
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Extraordinary easel on whose canvas Sztwiertnia did not forget a single pawn of this spiral of shame before and during the Second World War; the mothers of the daughters and sons arrested by the Gestapo, urged to free their relatives from their deadly fate, clandestinely paying the cocaine-addicted wife of a famous actor, also urged by his drug, cowardly taking advantage of the highest pain that there are those and the privileged information of the Master. Indeed, the naive hope that Władysław Czekański, the Master, had found, dazzled by his renown in the theaters of Poland, with praise there and cheers here, completely dazzled him, blinded him without being able to imagine the downpour of events that he would tip…
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