Maciej Englert

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.

The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.

Durante la invasión de Polonia por parte del ejército prusiano en 1793, el joven noble polaco Jakub es liberado de su encarcelamiento por un extraño que, a cambio, quiere obtener la lista de sus compañeros conspiradores. Siguiendo a su misterioso salvador a través del país, Jakub es testigo del caos y la corrupción moral imperantes, incluyendo la muerte de un ser querido y la infidelidad de su prometida. Demente por lo que ha contemplado, comete una serie de sangrientos asesinatos sin motivo aparente. (FILMAFFINITY)