Directed by:
Piotr SzulkinScreenplay:
Piotr SzulkinCinematography:
Zygmunt SamosiukCast:
Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Marek Walczewski, Bozena Dykiel, Joanna Żółkowska, Wieslaw Drzewicz, Janusz Gajos (more)Plots(1)
28th December 1999 in an unnamed Western country. The Martians landed a few days ago, the population has already hastily surrendered and all the institutions are already in their service. As the popular presenter of the SBB TV station and its news programme "Independent News", Iron Idem reads the daily announcements of friendship and cooperation and calls upon viewers to donate blood for the aliens. But Idem is unhappy and voices his discontentment to the editor-in-chief. One morning, a riot squat breaks into his apartment in a brutal manner. His wife is kidnapped and he himself is stigmatised with a "friendship badge", a metallic badge with a running figure on it that identifies him as a friend of the Martians. Idem loses his apartment and is forced to live in an emergency shelter, while all attempts to find his wife fail. Colleagues and officials humiliate him, the invaders and their henchman harass him wherever he goes. Due to his popularity though, Idem is still allowed to appear on television. During a live concert in honour of the Martians he calls for resistance against them. The viewers are now, however, also in line with public opinion and no longer capable of understanding what he's trying to say. The rebel has now become an outsider for good and is arrested and sentenced to death. But when Idem watches his own shooting on one of the omnipresent screens, he's not even sure whether it really took place. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Roman Wilhelmi
Poland
Best movies:
Bez znieczulenia (1978)
Der Aufenthalt (1983)
Eroica (1957)
Krystyna Janda
Poland
Best movies:
Man of Marble (1977)
Mephisto (1981)
Interrogation (1982)
Mariusz Dmochowski
Poland
Best movies:
Birth Certificate (1961)
Eroica (1957)
Camouflage (1976)
Jerzy Stuhr
Poland
Best movies:
Sonata (2021)
Camera Buff (1979)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Marek Walczewski
Poland
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
The Tin Drum (1979)
King Size (1987)
Bozena Dykiel
Poland
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
Znachor (1981)
Interrogation (1982)
Joanna Żółkowska
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
The Illumination (1972)
Camouflage (1976)
Wieslaw Drzewicz
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Man of Marble (1977)
Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Janusz Gajos
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Interrogation (1982)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Stanisław Tym
Poland
Best movies:
Miś (1980)
Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz (1978)
Rozmowy kontrolowane (1991)
Józef Skrzek
Poland
Best movies:
The War of the Worlds - The Next Century (1981)
Golem (1979)
Zbigniew Buczkowski
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
Day of the Wacko (2002)
Man of Iron (1981)
Witold Pyrkosz
Poland
Best movies:
Bez znieczulenia (1978)
Hit the Bank (1981)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Włodzimierz Musiał
Best movies:
Europa Europa (1990)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Hit the Bank (1981)
Leonard Andrzejewski
Poland
Best movies:
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978)
Potop (1974)
Borys Marynowski
Poland
Best movies:
A Short Film About Killing (1987)
Blind Chance (1981)
Szpital przemienienia (1978)
Piotr Komorowski
Poland
Best movies:
With Fire and Sword (1999)
The Ashes (1965)
Tato (1995)
Marian Zdenicki
Best movies:
The War of the Worlds - The Next Century (1981)
The Devil (1972)
Juliusz Kalinowski
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Potop (1974)
Forbidden Songs (1946)
The War of the Worlds - The Next Century (1981)
Michał Leśniak
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Wielki bieg (1981) (TV movie)
The War of the Worlds - The Next Century (1981)
The Pearl in the Crown (1971)