The Calm

The Calm

1976 · 1 hr 21 min · N/A

Drama

Directors

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Actors

  • Jerzy Stuhr
  • Izabella Olszewska
  • Jerzy Trela

Credits: 3

Summary

After a three-year sentence, a man tries to start a new life.

More about this movie

Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. The unavoidable conflict destroys him.