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Conversation with a Cupboard Man

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Conversation with a Cupboard Man
Directed byMariusz Grzegorzek [pl]
Written byMariusz Grzegorzek
Story byIan McEwan
CinematographyJolanta Dylewska
Music byDonald Crumb
A. Nowak
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
LanguagePolish

Conversation with a Cupboard Man (Polish: Rozmowa z człowiekiem z szafy, also known as The Conversation with the Man from the Closet) is a 1993 Polish drama film written and directed by Mariusz Grzegorzek and loosely based on a short story by Ian McEwan.[1]

The film was entered into the main competition at the 50th edition of the Venice Film Festival.[2] It also won the Special Jury Prize at the 1993 Polish Film Festival.[3]

Plot

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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...[4]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Krzysztof Kucharski. Kino Polskie, 1990-1999. Kino Plus, 2010. ISBN 8393121620.
  2. ^ Variety Staff (September 6, 1993). "Films in competition at Venice". Variety . Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  3. ^ Monika Mokrzycka-Pokora (November 2009). "Mariusz Grzegorzek". Culture.pl. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ^ Rozmowa z czlowiekiem z szafy (1993) - IMDb, retrieved 2022-03-10
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