The Constant Factor

The Constant Factor

1980 · 87 min · PL · 7.4 (25 votes)
Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi · Starring Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Małgorzata Zajączkowska, Witold Pyrkosz, Cezary Morawski, Ewa Lejczak
Drama

A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.

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A suffocatingly bleak and somber experience, this film immerses you in a world of pervasive corruption and institutional indifference. It's a heavy, deliberate watch that captures the crushing weight of individual struggle against systemic decay.

bleakoppressivesomberfrustratedslow-burnsocial realismarthouseperiod dramamoral decayinstitutional corruptionhuman frailtyindividual struggle
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