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Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime.
Direction
Królikiewicz's debut is formally daring experimental Polish cinema.
Acting
Trzeciak and Nieborowska convey entire marriage in glances.
Cinematography
Cramped frames that suffocate—poverty as visual prison.

Director
Grzegorz Królikiewicz
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