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Conversation with a Cupboard Man
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Wikipedia article
'Conversation with a Cupboard Man' (, also known as 'The Conversation with the Man from the Closet') is a 1993 Polish drama film written and directed by Mariusz Grzegorzek and loosely based on a short story by Ian McEwan.
The film was entered into the main competition at the 50th edition of the Venice Film Festival. It also won the Special Jury Prize at the 1993 Polish Film Festival.
Plot
Charles 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. Charles' 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 Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address...
Cast
* Boena Adamek as Mother
* Rafa Olbrychski as Karol
* Karol Cielar as Karol (3 years old)
* Maciej Wilk as Karol (7 years old)
* Adam Ferency as Kitchen Master
* Marek Walczewski as Teacher
* Stanisawa Celiska as Postwoman
* Leon Niemczyk as Inspector
* Ewa Frckiewicz as Mrs. Weiss
* Marek Siudym as Mother's Fianc
* Piotr Pawowski as Deth
* Wiesawa Mazurkiewicz as Old Gravedigger
* Katarzyna Bargieowska as Young Cook
References
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