Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Polish — subtitles on.
The story
Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Wojciech Pszoniak
Stranger / The Devil
Leszek Teleszyński
Jakub
Małgorzata Braunek
Fiancée
Iga Mayr
Jakub's Mother
- Wiktor Sadecki — Herz
- Michał Grudziński — Ezechiel
- Maciej Englert — The Count / Groom
- Monika Niemczyk — The Nun
- Bożena Miefiodow — Turkish Woman
- Marian Zdenicki — The Dwarf
- Anna Parzonka — Jakub's Sister
- Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak — Valet
- Łukasz Żuławski — Actor
- Eugeniusz Priwieziencew — Companion
- Stefan Kąkol — Deranged Man (uncredited)
- Directed
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Written
- Andrzej Żuławski
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 95 ratings
- Studio
- Zespół Filmowy "X"
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
