PRINCIPAL CAST

Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Jerzy Trela, Artur Janusiak, Marek Kasprzyk, Halina Skoczynska, Pawel Burczyk, Mariusz Jakus, Izabela Dabrowska, Anna Grzeszczak

DIRECTOR

Pawel Pawlikowski

WRITER

Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz

SYNOPSIS

18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism.

BOX OFFICE

$3.6 Million

GENRE

Drama

RATING

Rated PG-13
thematic elements, some sexuality and smoking

RUN TIME

80 Minutes

STUDIO

Music Box Films