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A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
Acting
Zamachowski's manic, desperate Stefek keeps you off-balance.
Direction
Linda's debut captures crumbling post-Soviet institutions perfectly.

Director
Bogusław Linda
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