A nun walks into a prison and finds God isn't the only ghost from her past.
Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential priest is kept in. She discovers the priest is the man she loved a few years before. Communist authorities try to make her spy on him now.
Acting
Cielecka's face does what the censors couldn't let the script say.
Direction
Sass frames claustrophobia as its own character.
Production
Period detail so precise you can smell the institutional dread.
Director
Barbara Sass
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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