Lesser Evil
2009 · 110 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 224 VOTES · DIR. Janusz Morgenstern
Overview
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....
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00:00:45 present, co-funded by Polish Film Institute
00:04:45 What?
00:09:02 Good to know. I've come for advice.
00:12:30 Well, poet! To pen, please. Typewriter, that is...
00:16:21 I don't have two credits.
00:20:18 Oh, come on! There must be a way.
00:24:05 All I hear is join the Party. They'll know how to make me a writer!
00:29:20 - Thank you. - That's nothing.
00:36:36 I only wanted to check you out with those cigarettes...
00:40:38 - What works? - You must've written earlier too.
00:47:26 I'll be glad to. It depends when.
00:53:15 You see that smudge? It's my nosebleed.
00:58:38 Counting on dollars from the CIA?
01:02:07 Challenges of high caliber.
01:06:13 I'm feeling fine at your place...
01:11:21 to explain your anti-socialistic excesses
01:15:15 It's completely irrelevant in this situation.
01:19:40 One day a Party meeting, tomorrow the Solidarity...
01:23:28 Could you publish another edition?
01:26:29 That would be a sensation! An author of illicit publications!
01:32:35 You had a radio play aired by a Swedish radio.
01:39:38 There's a bar nearby, where we can talk.
01:43:09 Most important, you write fine poems.
01:50:56 Cast of Characters