About a young man (JAG/Me/Self) who is looking for an identity. He meets a woman, Ebba, they move in together, marry, but the marriage is becoming more and more disharmonious and dysfunctional. On the bus he run into a woman from his past, Ann-Marie. They reconnect on some level, but Ann-Marie has a family. At the same time, this is driving the relationship with the wife towards a crisis.
Category: Drama
An adaptation of ‘Priest Island’ by E.L. Grant Watson. A man is exiled to a lonely island after he is caught stealing sheep to pay the dowry for his beloved. He is sentenced to spend his life on an uninhabited island with only a few simple tools. Mary, a maid, intrigued by the story and the man, decides to join him there.
John has a happy life as a composer and family man which suddenly collapses when his wife Helen leaves him; she is having an affair with one of his friends. John soon comes to realise this is only a symptom of long-ignored problems in their marriage and is forced to confront some truths about his inner self.
One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. Krymov denies this, but out of compassion he helps arrange a necessary operation for Pavel. Then certain things begin happening which suggest to Krymov that he may have a psychologically unstable fellow on his hands.
Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and along with Ruben shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben’s mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?
The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of the guru of her mother. Finally she finds him in a very young street-girl who is able to sing marvelously. But this girl keeps disappearing again and again…
Looking to escape a troubled marriage, a woman returns to her hometown, where she repairs a broken friendship with her cousin and finds true happiness.
The residents of an old people’s home anxiously watch television weather forecasts that predict a hard winter. When a huge transport of coffins arrives in the same night, the old people start to suspect that someone is preparing a mass death for them. In solidarity, they decide to escape and… go out to the country. They are followed by a police chase, which at times resembles a manhunt. The film, made in 1981/82 but released a year later, unexpectedly became a metaphor for the Polish history of the time.