Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Some of them were forced to leave their country for having Jewish origin. And for political reasons.
Вера - секретарь штаб-квартиры НАТО в Брюсселе, где решения о жизни или смерти миллионов людей принимаются за большим столом. Во время деловой поездки в США она узнаёт, что ядерные ракеты США будут размещены в Западной Европе. Ядерная угроза теперь в пределах досягаемости. Как с этим бороться? Эти знания тяжело давят на девушку, а также выставляют её любовь к британскому полковнику Шелвину в ином свете. Но нельзя спрятаться от собственных моральных норм. Вера принимает решение, и она едет с ним в Восточный Берлин...
The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell, he imposes on himself.
Karol has everything. He has three mistresses in addition to the bride. He is charming, loves sex and enslaves women in the blink of an eye. He's also well aware of that women like and uses it for his benefits.
