As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. He has no consciousness of ... See full summary ». £9.99 — DVD 3 Oct. 2005 "Please retry" — 1. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? A senator's aide returns to her small corrupt hometown of San Bonifacio, TX near the U.S.-Mexico border to investigate the death of her sister - a local cop killed by a car bomb. I'm sorry this lost out to Wild at what? You went against the narrative. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. Due to its criticism of the regime, the Polish communist government banned the film from public viewing for over seven years, until the 1989 dissolution of the Eastern Bloc allowed it to see the light of day. Generally bleak and melancholic films. This film is notable in the fact that for the first time, an Israeli film director (Erez Pery) gives voice to the perpetrator. I first saw "Przesluchanie" ("Interrogation") in the late 'eighties on Channel 4. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. Brian Chen vs Melanie Pruitt 2005. It's a powerful and brilliant film, but not one I will rush to see again. However, at the time Interrogation went through the system in 1982, the authorities were preoccupied with preparations for the forthcoming imposition of martial law and it somehow slipped through the net. 5 of 9 people found this review helpful. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Love it.. watch it for yourself before believing the low ratings given by a few trolls. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre. [2], Despite the film's controversial initial reception and subsequent banning, it garnered a cult fanbase through the circulation of illegally taped VHS copies, which director Ryszard Bugajski secretly helped to leak to the general public.[1][3]. Raw, brutal, harrowing, heartbreaking. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. A true-crime podcaster tries to solve the mystery surrounding a family patriarch's death. Powerful and face-punching testament against the abuse of authorities and the senselessness involved in the obsessive idea of your actions necessarily meaning any political act (sigh...). You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. After refusing to sign a false confession which denounces a friend, she is taken to the showers block in the basement and placed in a tiny barred cell. Eric's friend from rehab, Chris Keller (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is interrogated about a crime he committed in New Mexico, which brings new information to light that may help Eric's defense. Tonia goes out drinking. Film data from TMDb. This list is the Letterboxd version of The Oxford History of World Cinema. A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared. Eric is ... Det. In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. Interrogation is described as "an original concept based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years, in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Jean-Pierre Darras was born on November 26, 1927 in Paris, France as Jean Pierre Dumontet. مدت زمان ۱ ساعت و ۵۲ دقیقه. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. [1] The film had its first theatrical release in December 1989 in Poland and was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, where Krystyna Janda won the award for Best Actress and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. His film Interrogation (1982), after being suppressed by the Polish communist authorities for several years, was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. See it, if and when you can. Interrogation A theatrical and even opulent start soon gives way to a horror that seems so unreal that even the woman at the centre of it doesn't seem to believe what's happening to her. Much like every year. An ordinary, apolitical woman refuses to cooperate with the abusive system and its officials, who are trying to force her to incriminate a former incidental lover, now an accused political prisoner. Mobile site. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of. Russell for the first time to press charges against Kim Decker, a former girlfriend. Then we get to the coerced and forced confessions during the titular interrogation scenes and it all starts…. Dave Russell vs Kim Decker 1982: 4. An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything, including throwing mud at his best friend, to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career. Extremely harrowing film with an extremely harrowing (and excellent) performance by Krystyna Janda. While in prison, she demands to see her husband. [1] The film had its first theatrical release in December 1989 in Poland and was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, where Krystyna Janda won the award for Best Actress and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Directed by Ryszard Bugajski.