The Mighty Angel

2014 [POLISH]

Action / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68%
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 3294 3.3K

based on novel or book addiction alcoholism

Plot summary

Jerzy is a writer and a heavy drinker. We meet him at the point when he believes that he can beat his addiction. He falls in love with a young girl and finally feels that he has got the person and the reason to live for. But soon he yields to his addiction.

Director

Wojciech Smarzowski Photo
Wojciech Smarzowski

Top cast

Robert Wieckiewicz Photo
Robert Wieckiewicz as Jerzy
Marian Dziedziel Photo
Marian Dziedziel as Moonshine King
Tomasz Sapryk Photo
Tomasz Sapryk as Terrorist's Boss
Kinga Preis Photo
Kinga Preis as Mania
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
968.81 MB
1280*536
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 2
1.94 GB
1920*804
Polish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wujaszko

For an alcoholic every day is a battle.

Reviewed by Sonofamoviegeek 9 / 10

Definitely not Hollywood

When Hollywood sets out to portray alcoholics, you get something sanitary like "Days of Wine and Roses" or happy endings like "Arthur". This is European realism and you get to see all the puke, soiled underwear, bar fights and street urination of real alcoholics. I don't know if the actors have alcohol problems in real life but each one is perfect in telling their story and how low "the mighty angel" has brought them in life. Robert Wieckiewicz is particularly perfect as a ruined Jerzy. Compare his performance to a half-smiling Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses) or the women alcoholics to cutsie-poo Lee Remick (also Days of Wine and Roses).And what better country to make a movie on alcoholism than Poland? During the Soviet era in Poland, one of the few commercial successes was Palmos (the state liquor monopoly). Although the Soviets are long gone, alcoholism still persists in present day Poland. It will take a long time for Polish society to grapple with the problem. Let us hope this movie takes the glamor out of the bottle for the Polish people. I think that is what the end of the movie symbolizes. We see Jerzy just out of rehab standing in the middle of a street equidistant from a bar, liquor store and the safety of his apartment. Just like present day Poland.
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