Zacma (2016)

Zacma: Directed by Ryszard Bugajski. With Maria Mamona, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Janusz Gajos, Marek Kalita. The film shows an obscure episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal – Colonel of the Office of Public Security, Julia Brystiger. Her nickname was “Bloody Luna” because during interrogations she tortured prisoners with extreme cruelty. At the beginning of 1960s she appeared in Laski near Warsaw, in the Institute for the Blind, where the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, was also a frequent visitor. His imprisonment in the years 1953-1956 was supervised by none other than Julia Brystiger herself. During the difficult and tempestuous conversation with the Primate, Julia Brystiger rejects the communist ideology, asks for her crimes to be forgiven and for help in finding God…

“A story that takes us through a complicated human consciousness.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is interesting and shows different people with different destinies and all the weight of human emotions.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA communist agent trying to find meaning in all this realizes that the world is much more complicated than she thought. She is slowly pressed by her own conscience, haunted by horrific images from the past and the ghosts of her victims.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMaria Mamona played her role well, she portrayed a person for whom it is really hard to have sympathy, but that may be the point of this film. You really need to have the strength to forgive someone for such things, it is extremely difficult.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film tries to show us how complicated people are, capable of cruelty but also capable of kindness.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAn interesting and complicated story about the search for meaning and redemption.”