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Interrogation

Original title: Przesluchanie
  • 19891989
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
3.4K
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Interrogation (1989)
CrimeDramaThriller
Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
3.4K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Ryszard Bugajski
  • Writers
    • Ryszard Bugajski
    • Janusz Dymek
  • Stars
    • Krystyna Janda
    • Adam Ferency
    • Janusz Gajos
  • Director
    • Ryszard Bugajski
  • Writers
    • Ryszard Bugajski
    • Janusz Dymek
  • Stars
    • Krystyna Janda
    • Adam Ferency
    • Janusz Gajos
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 9User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 9 wins & 4 nominations

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    Adam Ferency and Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Adam Ferency and Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Janusz Gajos and Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Janusz Gajos and Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)
    Interrogation (1989)
    Interrogation (1989)
    Krystyna Janda in Interrogation (1989)

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    Krystyna Janda
    Krystyna Janda
    • Antonina 'Tonia' Dziwisz
    Adam Ferency
    Adam Ferency
    • Lieutenant Morawski
    Janusz Gajos
    Janusz Gajos
    • Major Zawada "Kapielowy"
    Agnieszka Holland
    Agnieszka Holland
    • Communist Witkowska
    Anna Romantowska
    Anna Romantowska
    • Miroslawa "Mira" Szejnert
    Bozena Dykiel
    Bozena Dykiel
    • Honorata
    Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    Olgierd Lukaszewicz
    • Konstanty Dziwisz (Tonia's husband)
    Tomasz Dedek
    Tomasz Dedek
    • UB officer "Czesiek" arresting Tonia
    Jan Jurewicz
    Jan Jurewicz
    • Guard
    Jaroslaw Kopaczewski
    Jaroslaw Kopaczewski
    • UB officer arresting Tonia
    Zofia Balucka
    • Cell-mate
    Arkadiusz Bazak
    Arkadiusz Bazak
    • Officer at Name-Day Party
    Krzysztof Gosztyla
    Krzysztof Gosztyla
    • Alledged victim
    Antonina Girycz
    Antonina Girycz
    • Cell Top Dog
    O. Jasinska
    Tomasz Lengren
    Tomasz Lengren
    • Major Olcha
    Katarzyna Laniewska
    Katarzyna Laniewska
    • Orphanage Manageress
    Kazimierz Meres
    • Officer at Name-Day Party
    • Director
      • Ryszard Bugajski
    • Writers
      • Ryszard Bugajski
      • Janusz Dymek
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    • Trivia
      Completed in early 1982, but due to its controversial anti-communist themes, was banned by the Polish government (then under Stalinist rule) for nearly eight years, until it was finally released in December 1989, after the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Girl from the Wardrobe (2012)

    User reviews9

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    9/10
    Gripping and heartbreaking
    Unlike the reviewer "carioca-6," I have never seen this film available in the U.S. for rent or sale in any video format. It is not available from Netflix as of early 2008. I have seen it only once, when I lived in Detroit. Living near the border, I could pick up some Canadian stations, and "The Interrogation" was shown probably in late 1991 on the old TVOntario series "Film International" hosted by Jay Scott. Nevertheless, so riveting was this film that I have never forgotten it. Within the first couple of minutes, the film establishes that Tonia is a young pretty blonde---she is a wife and mother but doesn't seem to take this role too seriously--who is apolitical (risky in Communist Poland) and mostly out to have a good time. Without warning or reason, the film plunges her into a Kafkaesque nightmare of arrest, interrogation, conviction and imprisonment. She loses her youth, her health, everything but her own inner resources, and as the outside world forgets her, she develops dignity and a will to survive. Still worth seeing, despite the collapse of the government under which it was made, as a character portrait and a study of man's inhumanity to (wo)man. There are places on Earth where this still goes on, and they are not so far away as we'd like to think.
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    5
    • mfisher452
    • Jun 16, 2002

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 13, 1989 (Poland)
    • Country of origin
      • Poland
    • Language
      • Polish
    • Also known as
      • Verhör einer Frau
    • Filming locations
      • Poland
    • Production company
      • Zespól Filmowy "X"
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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