Four Nights with Anna
(2008)
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Four Nights with Anna
(2008)
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Artur Steranko | ... |
Leon Okrasa
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Anna
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Jerzy Fedorowicz | ... |
Ordynator
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Redbad Klynstra | ... |
Sedzia
(as Redbad Klijnstra)
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Jakub Snochowski | ... |
Policjant
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Barbara Kolodziejska | ... |
Babcia
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Malgorzata Buczkowska | ... |
Kolezanka Anny
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Anna Lenartowicz | ... |
Nurse
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Urszula Bartos-Gesikowska | ... |
Kasjerka
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Anna Szawiel | ... |
Jubilerka
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Marcin Jedrzejewski | ... |
Wienzien 1
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Zbigniew Konopka | ... |
Wienzien 2
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Judyta Paradzinska-Górska | ... |
Sedzina
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Witold Wielinski | ... |
Wuebzueb z gazeta
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Wieslaw Cichy |
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A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
I recently saw this at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival. After a long absence from film noted Polish filmmaker Jerzt Skolimowski was coaxed back into film-making to to write and direct a small feature film which became this film Four Nights with Anna. Skolimowski was at the screening and explained that a producer wanted him involved in a major film as a director but wanted him first to direct a smaller film to show that he was still a competent filmmaker. Co-written with his wife Eva Piaskowska this film is set in northern Poland in a bleak environment of a small northern town and is the story of Leon (Artur Steranko) who works for a hospital crematorium and lives on the hospital grounds with his ailing grandmother. Across from their house is the nurses quarters where Anna (Kinga Preis) lives. Leon is a timid bachelor with a menial job and a criminal history who is infatuated with Anna. This is a dark and dark-looking drama with little dialog and an almost Hitchcock-like suspense but not a heavy suspense prevailing throughout the film. It's a small film but skillfully executed and a wonderful performance by relative unknown Steranko in the lead role. I would give this a 7.0 out of 10.