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Film poster for Bez końca |
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Directed by | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
Produced by | Ryszard Chutkowski |
Written by | Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz |
Starring | Grażyna Szapołowska Maria Pakulnis Aleksander Bardini Artur Barciś Danny Webb |
Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
Cinematography | Jacek Petrycki |
Editing by | Krystyna Rutkowska |
Release date(s) | 1985 |
Running time | 109 min. |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish |
No End (Polish: Bez końca) is a 1985 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski ultimately concerning the state of Martial law in Poland after the banning of the trade union Solidarity in 1981.
No End was Kieślowski's first writing collaboration with the screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who co-wrote the screenplays for all of Kieślowski's subsequent films. The film is also the first of Kieślowski's with music by Zbigniew Preisner, who provided the musical score for most of Kieślowski's subsequent films. As in later films, Preisner's score is explicitly referenced by the characters in the film itself, in this case with the main character's son playing the theme on a piano at home.
A Polish translator, Ulla (Grażyna Szapołowska), grieves her recently deceased lawyer husband. As she copes with her loss, the family of her husband's last client, Darek Stach, contacts her in need of legal documents and advice. Ulla struggles with caring for her son, and alternately trying to remember and to forget her husband, while Darek struggles to come to terms with his imprisonment for political dissidence. Ulla's husband's ghost observes these events, occasionally becoming visible to Ulla and Darek.
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