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Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michał witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were employed as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
Keywords
world war ii
typhus
german occupation
gestapo
pregnant woman
death of family
poland
Casts

Leszek Teleszyński
Michał

Małgorzata Braunek
Marta

Jan Nowicki
Jan

Jerzy Goliński
Michał's Father

Anna Milewska
Sister Klara

Michał Grudziński
Marian

Marek Walczewski
Rozenkranc

Hanna Stankówna
Lice Breeder

Alicja Jachiewicz
The Waitress
Leszek Długosz
Blind Man
Jadwiga Halina Gallowa
Rozenkrac's Mother
Halina Czengery
Michał's Mother

Grażyna Barszczewska
Lab Technician
Ewa Ciepiela
Lice Feeder

Janina Ordężanka
Olek's Mother

Tadeusz Huk
Lice Feeder
Andrzej Lajborek
Nurse
Janusz Miszczak
Łukasz

Krzysztof Fus
Olek

Andrzej Dobosz
Lice Feeder (uncredited)

Jerzy Stuhr
Lab Technician (uncredited)

Tadeusz Janczar
Blind Man (voice) (uncredited)
Crews

Andrzej Żuławski
Director

Halina Ber
Makeup Artist
Małgorzata Jaworska
Sound

Witold Sobociński
Director of Photography

Andrzej Korzyński
Original Music Composer

Halina Prugar-Ketling
Editor

Teresa Barska
Production Design
Stanislaw Ledóchowski
Set Decoration

Lidia Rzeszewska
Costume Design
Jerzy Śnieżawski
Assistant Production Design

Maciej Kijowski
Camera Operator
Bohdan Borewicz
Assistant Camera
Piotr Jaszczuk
Assistant Camera

Andrzej Żuławski
Screenplay

Mirosław Żuławski
Screenplay
Wiesław Orłowski
Construction Foreman
Anna Grabowska
Music Consultant
Andrzej Sadowski
Sound Assistant
Jadwiga Lesniewicz
Assistant Editor
Anna Grabowska
Assistant Makeup Artist
Stefan Kryński
Production Consultant
Maciej Grochowicz
Production Consultant
Renata Pajchel
Still Photographer

Barbara Pec-Ślesicka
Production Manager

Tadeusz Drewno
Assistant Production Manager

Andrzej Kotkowski
First Assistant Director
Maria Pietrzak
Assistant Director
Aleksy Krywsza
Lighting Technician

Andrzej Wajda
Supervising Art Director
Danuta Iwanowska
Assistant Production Manager
Janusz Szela
Assistant Production Manager
Andrzej Smereka
Assistant Production Manager
Krystyna Grochowicz
Script Supervisor
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