Lesser Evil

Overview

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....

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Lesław Żurek

Kamil Nowak

Anna Romantowska

matka Kamila

Janusz Gajos

Mieczysław Nowak, ojciec Kamila

Wojciech Pszoniak

pacjent

Magdalena Cielecka

aktorka

Tamara Arciuch

lekarka

Borys Szyc

Mareczek Kolenda

Edyta Olszówka

eseistka, siostra lekarki

Władysław Kowalski

publicysta

Julia Kamińska

poetka