Mother of Kings

Matka Królów, feature film, 1983

DIRECTED BY: Janusz Zaorski

Mother of Kings

CAST:
Magda Teresa Wójcik (Lucja Król),
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz (Wiktor Lewen),
Franciszek Pieczka (Cyga),
Boguslaw Linda (Klemens Król)

SCRIPT:
Janusz Zaorski (prema romanu Kazimierza Brandysa)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Edward Klosinski

Synopsis:
The film depicts the life of a mother of four sons during the darkest period of Polish history: WW II and the time of Stalin. Lucja Król is a poor woman that is giving birth to her fourth son. After her husband dies, she gets help from her neighbor Viktor, a communist and intellectual who soon gets imprisoned. With her blessing, her sons hold Communist meetings in their apartment during the war.

35 mm, b/w, 127 min