Tabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.
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| Stanislaw Latallo | ... | Franciszek Retman | |
| Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska | ... | Agnieszka | |
| Malgorzata Pritulak | ... | Malgorzata | |
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Jan Skotnicki | ... | Chory the Mathematician |
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Wlodzimierz Zonn | ... | University Dean (as Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Zonn) |
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Bogdan Mielnik | ... | Himself (as Bogdan Mielnik PhD) |
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Wladyslaw Turski | ... | Himself (as Wladyslaw Turski PhD) |
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Wlodzimierz Zawadzki | ... | Assistant (as Wlodzimierz Zawadski PhD) |
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Lukasz Turski | ... | Himself (as Dr. Lukasz Turski) |
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Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska | ... | Franciszek's Mother (as J. Colonna-Walewska) |
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Irena Horecka | ... | Sick Mother (as I. Horecka) |
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Get genial. Go to army. Blow your chance with the love of your life. Get sex, get married, get kids and social "respectability". Work in a well reputed scientific research institute.
After such an impressive "carreer", start seeking your soul. To get it, leave everything behind and get to the monastery to become a monk. For some,(the weaker minded I would like to believe) this is a gift from god: the "illumination" ! as simple as that.
For others, I believe the meaning is the failure of a genius to be a "social beast" and find happiness this way among his fellow people. As once Kant (?) said, the superior being (man) is self-sufficient to himself. He can find peace only in the defiance of secluding himself in a monastery in a country ruled by a communist regime.
Excellent movie, more actual and dangerous than anything in these materialistic days of our modern society. No wonder you can't find a copy to buy anywhere in the US.