directed by Agnieszka Holland (Kobieta samotna, Poland 1981–7, 92 min. – original version with Italian subtitles)
Irena works as a postwoman, she is separated, and she lives with her eight-year-old son in a Wrocław suburb where she also looks after an ailing, and ageing, female relative. When she meets Jacek, it looks like the start of a relationship that is also her only chance of emerging from isolation, but her problems never cease. The film was made in 1981, at the time of the "Solidarność carnival", but the picture of society that it paints was far from reassuring because it shuns the "stereotyped dichotomy between government and opposition, proving to be far more complex than its contemporary Iron Man" (Robert Birkholc, Culture.pl).
Image: A Woman Alone, courtesy studio Di Factory
Informazioni
Admission free while places last. Places will be assigned from one hour before the start of each screening. Reservations may be made by membership card holders only. There will no further admission once the event has started.
Sala Cinema
Admission via steps in via Milano 9a