Little Rose

Little Rose

2010 · 118 min · PL · 6.8 (30 votes)
Dir. Jan Kidawa-Błoński · Starring Andrzej Seweryn, Magdalena Boczarska, Robert Więckiewicz, Jacek Braciak, Grażyna Szapołowska, Jan Frycz · Różyczka - Kolekcja
HistoryDramaRomance

Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.

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This film feels like a slow, suffocating descent into moral compromise. It's a tense, romantic drama steeped in the oppressive atmosphere of a bygone era, where personal desires clash with political machinations.

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