No End

1985 [POLISH]

Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 77% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 6176 6.2K

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Plot summary

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

Director

Krzysztof Kieslowski Photo
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Top cast

Danny Webb Photo
Danny Webb as American
Marek Kondrat Photo
Marek Kondrat as Tomek, Antek's friend
Aleksander Bardini Photo
Aleksander Bardini as Lawyer Mieczyslaw Labrador
Jan Tesarz Photo
Jan Tesarz as Joanna's Father
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992.27 MB
1204*720
Polish 2.0
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Subtitles pl  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
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1.8 GB
1792*1072
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles pl  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

No 30

Grazyna Szapolowska's husband dies. He was a public defender, so she tries to arrange for his last client, Artur Barcis, to have a good defendant. She arranges for Aleksander Bardini, under whom her husband had apprenticed, to take the case. Barcis is accused of having led an illegal strike, and Bardini works to have him tread the middle ground of confessing and denial.Krzysztof Kieslowski's movie is a murky one that tells us we can never tell what is going on at the moment. Only in retrospect can we figure out what was going on, and even that may not be true. It is a gloomy movie, with a lot of motivation left unclear. Did Miss Szapolowska really love her husband? Why has Bardini, who hasn't taken a case of this sort for more than 30 years, taken this one? What was the strike actually about? That remains uncertain, even after the movie's end.
Reviewed by mossgrymk 6 / 10

no end

...and not much of a middle, either. Beginning's pretty good, though. Is it just me or is TCM Imports, under Alicia Malone, grimly determined to show every single heavy, stolid, dull, depressing film from Mr. Kieslowski? Just one solid, grey, bleak, enervating shroud until I finally cried "wystarczajaco" right around the time Antec's lovely, grieving widow, for reasons best known to Kieslowski and herself, decides to sleep with a random English dude she picks up in a bar. If I were a cynical sort I'd say that the dour Pole had a commercial side to his foreboding personality as I'm sure the sight of Grazyna Szapolowska's luscious bod did not exactly discourage ticket sales. God knows, you need something to quicken the ol pulse as you watch this bloodless bunch, cigarettes stuck firmly in their mugs, stare into the abyss, weep, occasionally crack a bitter joke and stare some more. For awhile, I was hoping that there would be some courtroom drama since the plot seemed to involve a lawyer trying to free a political prisoner. But at the film's halfway mark nary a judge, jury or executioner were to be found. Unless, of course, you see Kieslowski as the hangman of all that is dramatically compelling. C plus.
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