Conversation with a Cupboard Man
Directed by Mariusz Grzegorzek
Plot
Karol sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Karol's tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Karol starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.
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Cast
Bożena Adamek
Mother
Rafał Olbrychski
Karol
Karol Cieślar
Three-year old Karol
Maciej Wilk
Seven-year old Karol
Adam Ferency
Chef
Marek Walczewski
Teacher
Stanisława Celińska
Postwoman
Leon Niemczyk
Inspector
Ewa Frąckiewicz
Mrs Weiss
Marek Siudym
Mother's Fiance
Piotr Pawłowski
Death
Wiesława Mazurkiewicz
Gravedigger
Katarzyna Bargiełowska
Young Cook
Alicja Cichecka
Cook
Zofia Kopacz
Cook