Zaćma (2016)

Title: Blindness

Original Title: Zaćma

Release Date: 2016-11-25

Status: Released

Rating: 6.4/10 (from 15 votes)

Language: PL

Genres: Drama, History

Production Companies: Kino Świat, Narodowe Centrum Kultury, Telewizja Polska, The Society for Arts, Studio Orka, Mazowiecki i Warszawski Fundusz Filmowy, TMS Diagnostyka

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.