The Case of Bronek Pekosinski

Overview

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.

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Cast

Bronisław Pekosiński

Bronisław Pekosiński

Maria Klejdysz

pani Bukowska

Anna Seniuk

koleżanka Danusia

Franciszek Trzeciak

sekretarz Jan Kos

Bronisław Pawlik

sędzia

Franciszek Pieczka

ksiądz Michalski

Krzysztof Chamiec

generał Bagno

Anna Milewska

siostra

Romuald Karaś

on sam, dziennikarz słuchający opowieści Pekosińskiego

Henryk Sobiechart

syn Bukowskiej