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Lesser Evil

Lesser Evil

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 23, 2009

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

55%

Original Title

Mniejsze zło

Production Companies

Studio Filmowe Perspektywa, Vision Film, WFDiF

Director

Janusz Morgenstern

Description

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....