The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993)

Name: Przypadek Pekosinskiego
Director: Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 1993-11-19
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Bronek Pekosinski, Maria Klejdysz, Anna Seniuk, Franciszek Trzeciak

Przypadek Pekosinskiego (original title)

1h 40min | Biography, Drama | 19 November 1993 (Poland)

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Bronek Pekosinski	...	Himself
	Maria Klejdysz	...	Mrs. Bukowska
	Anna Seniuk	...	Friend Danusia
	Franciszek Trzeciak	...	Secretary Jan Kos
	Bronislaw Pawlik	...	Judge
	Franciszek Pieczka	...	Priest Michalski
	Krzysztof Chamiec	...	General Bagno
	Anna Milewska	...	Sister
	Romuald Karas	...	Himself
	Henryk Sobiechart
	Jolanta Rychlowska	...	Friend Stasia
	Aleksander Fogiel	...	Professor
	Witold Pyrkosz	...	Secretary
	Joanna Winnik
	Zygmunt Malanowicz	...	Sacristan

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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. And even though he is continuously humiliated and driven away, betrayed and victimized, he manages to retain his personal dignity and trustful nature of a small child. Throughout all his life Bronek has been ... Written by Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>

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