90 minutes
3/2/1994
Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.
Bożena Adamek
as Mother
Rafał Olbrychski
as Karol
Karol Cieślar
as Three-year old Karol
Maciej Wilk
as Seven-year old Karol
Adam Ferency
as Chef
Marek Walczewski
as Teacher
Stanisława Celińska
as Postwoman
Leon Niemczyk
as Inspector
Ewa Frąckiewicz
as Mrs Weiss
Marek Siudym
as Mother's Fiance
Piotr Pawłowski
as Death
Wiesława Mazurkiewicz
as Gravedigger
Katarzyna Bargiełowska
as Young Cook
Alicja Cichecka
as Cook
Zofia Kopacz
as Cook
Barbara Marszałek
as Job Office Clerk
Andrzej Kierc
as Facility Director
Mirosław Siedler
as Facility Trainer
Ewa Gajda
as Woman in Karol's old Apartment
Gabriela Muskała
as Woman in a Park
Tomasz Gaduła-Zawratyński