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Interrogation (1989)
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Original name: Przesłuchanie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Style:
bleak, realistic, disturbing, controversial, thinking, serious, psychological thriller, thought provoking, banned
Plot:
prison, communism, false accusation, cell, anti communist, humiliation, hopelessness, forced confession, life is a bitch, injustice, society, confined, rebellion, political corruption, state affairs, communist, prison escape, police brutality, torture, freedom, arrest, jail, female nudity, stalinism, baby ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s, year 1982, 80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 115 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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