The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993)

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Country: Poland
Genres: Biography, Drama
Release: 1993-11-19
Director: Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Writers: Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Language: Polish
Stars: Maria Klejdysz , Anna Seniuk , Franciszek Trzeciak , Bronislaw Pawlik , Franciszek Pieczka , Krzysztof Chamiec , Anna Milewska , Henryk Sobiechart
Runtime: 100 min
Awards: 3 nominations
AKA: Case Pekosinski (United States of America) , Przypadek Pekosińskiego (Poland) , The Case of Bronek Pekosinski , Przypadek Pekosinskiego , The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (United Kingdom) , The Beautiful Life of Bronek Pekosinski (United States of America) , Case Pekosinski , Case Pekosinski (United Kingdom) , The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (United States of America)
Plot: Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess. And even though he is continuously humiliated and driven away, betrayed and victimized, he manages to retain his personal dignity and trustful nature of a small child. Throughout all his life Bronek has been searching for his mother.
IMDB:tt0107893