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Love Stories (1997)
Director: Jerzy Stuhr
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From Time Out Film Guide
Written, directed by and starring Jerzy Stuhr in four different roles, this morose comic fable interweaves the stories of four inhabitants of Krakow - a lecturer, an army officer, a priest and a drug smuggler - to mount a subtle exploration of the diverse roles played by love in contemporary life. It's a movie about fear, guilt, cowardice, responsibility, trust and betrayal, but despite occasional forays into allegorical fantasy, it mercifully never sermonises or descends into maudlin sentiment. Ingenious, insightful and finally rather touching. (Dedicated to Krzysztof Kieslowski, for whom Stuhr regularly acted.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Producer: Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Moczydlowski, Jacek Bromski
Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Dominika Ostalowska, Katarzyna Figura, Irina Alfiorowa, Karolina Ostrozna, Jerzy Nowak full cast
Duration: 84 mins
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