The Calm (1980)
The Calm is a 1980 Polish television drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, and Jerzy Trela. Based on a story by Lech Borski and a screenplay by Kieślowski and Jerzy Stuhr, the film is about a young man who leaves prison after a three-year sentence seeking to start a new life. His dreams of a better life are broken, however, when he is forced into a conflict between a corrupt construction company boss and his fellow workers who go on strike. The Calm was filmed on location in Kraków and completed in 1976, but was banned by the state because of its subject matter—strikes were illegal in Poland during that time. The film was finally shown on Polish television for the first time on 19 September 1980. In 1981, The Calm received the Polish Film Festival Special Jury Prize.
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Cast:
- Jan Adamski
- Marian Cebulski
- Edward Dobrzanski
- Ryszard Dreger
- Jerzy Fedorowicz
- Ferdynand Wójcik
- Stanislaw Gronkowski
- Elzbieta Karkoszka
- Stanislaw Marczewski
- Stefan Mienicki
- Jan Nizinski
- Izabella Olszewska
- Ryszard Palik
- Danuta Ruksza
- Jerzy Stuhr
- Janusz Sykutera
- Feliks Szajnert
- Michal Szulkiewicz
- Jerzy Trela
- Grzegorz Warchol
- Michal Zarnecki