Conversation with a Cupboard Man

The story

Karol sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Karol's tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Karol starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.

Cast

B Bożena AdamekMother R Rafał OlbrychskiKarol K Karol CieślarThree-year old Karol M Maciej WilkSeven-year old Karol A Adam FerencyChef M Marek WalczewskiTeacher S Stanisława CelińskaPostwoman L Leon NiemczykInspector E Ewa FrąckiewiczMrs Weiss M Marek SiudymMother's Fiance P Piotr PawłowskiDeath W Wiesława MazurkiewiczGravedigger

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K Katarzyna BargiełowskaYoung Cook A Alicja CicheckaCook Z Zofia KopaczCook B Barbara MarszałekJob Office Clerk A Andrzej KiercFacility Director M Mirosław SiedlerFacility Trainer E Ewa GajdaWoman in Karol's old Apartment G Gabriela MuskałaWoman in a Park T Tomasz Gaduła-Zawratyński