Pre-Production - ENGLISH, POLISH - Historical, Female director, Thriller - 110 minutes
The Lecture is a cold war thriller, set in a surreal and cinematic setting of 1981 Warsaw under communist Martial Law.No heroes, no spies, just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Kasia ADAMIK Writer(s) : Sandra BUCHTA Producer(s) : Olga CHAJDAS (WILD MOUSE), Katarzyna OZGA (IRIS PRODUCTIONS), Nicolas STEIL (IRIS PRODUCTIONS), Sarka CIMBALOVA (MARLENE FILM PRODUCTION), Agnieszka HOLLAND, Paul MILLER, Sam TAYLOR, Janusz WACHALA
Warsaw, December 13, 1981: Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And a British professor, Gillian Andrews who just arrived the night before, finds herself lost like a rat in a maze, trapped in an anonymous satellite town.When she witnesses the murder of a student (the brother of her contact in Warsaw) by an officer of the secret police Gillian becomes a target – and, involuntarily, takes a stand on the side of David battling Goliath. Isolated and without any means of communication she is left to rely on intuition, survival instinct and imagination. She has to outsmart a totalitarian regime and its communication ban by smuggling photographs incriminating the regime out of Poland.
Country(ies) : POLAND, LUXEMBOURG, CZECH REPUBLIC