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....
Dialogue Timeline — 1,111 lines
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00:00:45 present, co-funded by Polish Film Institute
00:04:41 - Three? To resell? - No, I've debuted!
00:08:55 Watch out for that mustache and kid.
00:12:17 Thanks... It was funny to write only by hand...
00:15:49 - Thank you... - Best regards to your fiancé.
00:19:50 Why, the army is not for poets...
00:23:29 It's infectious, those crazy vibes from patients...
00:28:36 Once your stretch is over, you walk and they detain
00:33:45 Could I be a senior registrar if not a Party member?
00:40:01 I can't stop
00:44:41 Don't leave me now.
00:50:22 As you wish.
00:55:53 - but less and less. I'm thinking of something bigger...
01:00:56 We care about the good of the homeland
01:04:49 Even if you didn't find a single hair
01:10:14 Mind your language! Have I brought you up like that?
01:13:36 They've sent me an advance for you: $500.
01:18:12 You must be a man!
01:21:32 established the Solidarity Union in your factory.
01:24:51 My calling card. First name basis?
01:29:41 What happened? Cleaning, Aunt?
01:36:06 - Hi. - Have you heard?
01:41:22 I've vowed to catch you...
01:45:53 and told us to remove them. So, where else?