Interrogation (35mm)

(Przesluchanie, Poland 1989, 118 min., 35mm)

Completed in 1982, Interrogation was deemed so upsetting to the Polish government of the time that it did not receive a theatrical release until 1989 and the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc. The film, set in the 1950s, centers on Tonia (Krystyna Janda), a cabaret singer who is forcibly taken to a military prison, with no prospects of release. Humiliated and brutalized by the prison staff, she refuses to sign all false confessions put before her. As the years go on, Tonia begins to accept her fate at the hands of an authoritarian government. The film went on to screen at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, where Janda won the prize for Best Actress.