Lesser Evil

Name: Lesser Evil
Released: 2009-10-23
Duration: 110 min
Cast: Lesław Żurek, Anna Romantowska, Janusz Gajos, Wojciech Pszoniak, Magdalena Cielecka

2009· 110 min★ 5.2

From Studio Filmowe Perspektywa · Vision Film · Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych

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Synopsis

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....