Rose
- Poland
- 2011
- 94'
- 3 × Agata Kulesza
It is the summer of 1945. Tadeusz, former soldier of the Polish Home Army, who lost everything during the war, travels through Masuria. He finds the widow of a German soldier he saw die. Rose, who lives alone on a large farm, gives Tadeusz a rather cold welcome. In return for the hospitality, Tadeusz offers to help with work on the farm. As time goes by, he starts to realise why Rose lives a solitary life, and protects her against a gang of looters. Amidst ruins of the war-ravaged land, where hope is just a tool for propaganda, two people from distant worlds find an impossible love.
- Directed by: Wojciech Smarzowski
- Screenplay: Michał Szczerbic
- Photography: Piotr Sobociński jr.
- Music: Mikołaj Trzaska
- Production Design: Marek Zawierucha
- Costume Design: Ewa Helman-Szczerbic, Magdalena Jadwiga Rutkiewicz-Luterek
- Editing: Paweł Laskowski
- Cast: Agata Kulesza, Marcin Dorociński
A film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, born in 1963, in Korczyn. He is a graduate of the Film and TV Direction Department at the Film School in Łódź, and film studies at the Jagiellonian University. He is considered to be one of the most important and uncompromising filmmakers of the contemporary Polish cinema. In many of his films, for example ‘Wesele / The Wedding,’ ‘Dom zły / The Dark House,’ ‘Wołyń / Hatred,’ or ‘Kler / Clergy,’ he touches on difficult social issues, stripping bare the mechanisms that lead to violence, hypocrisy and collective trauma. His unique film style is distinguished by realism, rawness, and in-depth analysis of human behaviour.
