Escape from the Liberty Cinema (1990)
Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc'
92 min
The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
- Release date
- October 14, 1990
- Country of origin
- Poland
- Music
- Zygmunt Konieczny, Jerzy Satanowski
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Cast
- Janusz Gajos as Censor Rabkiewicz
- Zbigniew Zamachowski as Assistant to the Censor
- Teresa Marczewska as Malgorzata
- Piotr Fronczewski as Communist Party Secretary
- Władysław Kowalski as Actor Tadeusz Playing Professor
- Michal Bajor as Film Critic
- Jan Peszek as Raskolnikov
- Jerzy Binczycki as Cinema Manager Karwanski
- Artur Barcis as Projectionist Krzysio
- Maciej Kozlowski as American Actor
- Henryk Bista as Janik
- Ewa Wencel as Censor's Secretary
- Krzysztof Wakulinski as Jerzy
- Zofia Charewicz as Ticket Collector
- Aleksander Bednarz as Edward
- Krystyna Tkacz as Nurse
- Zygmunt Bielawski as Mental Hospital Doctor
- Ewa Wisniewska as Censor's Ex-Wife
- Monika Bolly as Marta Rabkiewicz
- Jerzy Gudejko as Doctor in a Movie
- Eugenia Herman as Teacher
- Wlodzimierz Musial as Militia Officer
- Jan Hencz as Official at a Screening
- Daria Trafankowska as Jurczyk
- Zbigniew Buczkowski as Guard in a Movie
Crew
- Wojciech Marczewski · Director
- Wojciech Marczewski · Writer
- Zygmunt Konieczny · Composer
- Jerzy Satanowski · Composer
- Jerzy Zielinski · Cinematographer
- Elzbieta Kurkowska · Editor
- Andrzej Kowalczyk · Production designer