A small-town teacher chases love to Warsaw, but capitalism eats her heart.
Karolina works in an elementary school in the province. She passively waits for a great love. Life seems empty and colorless to her. Karolina's friend Jola, who decides to take fate into her own hands, has a different attitude to reality. This does not always bring positive results. One day Karolina meets Jan, who has come to the town for a seminar of young capitalists. Soon Jan leaves the town, and Karolina goes to Warsaw to meet him.
Acting
Maja Ostaszewska's fragile, heartbreaking stillness.
Direction
Hryniak's cold eye on hope's slow death.
Director
Jan Hryniak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Poland's painful transition to capitalism, the 'young capitalists' seminar is almost documentary-level satire of 1990s get-rich-quick schemes.
Hryniak based Karolina partly on Chekhov's Three Sisters—note how Warsaw becomes their Moscow, equally unreachable.
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