European Film Festival: Strawman
November 11, 2023
4:45 PM | SIFF Cinema Egyptian
European Film Festival - Frontline: Poland Movie Series presents Strawman.
Walk up sales are cash only.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
The action is set in the Communist Poland. The film is based on true events and tells unknown story of surveillance operation whose target was Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II. Told from the perspective of a young officer in charge of the operation; he invigilated Wojtyla for over 20 years from his consecration as a bishop of Krakow in 1958 until his election as Pope in 1978. The film skillfully uses generic tropes of an espionage thriller to tell a dark but compelling story of a man tasked with a morally indefensible objective, who succumbs to loneliness and despair. Wojtyla, the goal of the surveillance operation, is only visible in the film in rare glimpses, and yet his life becomes the obsession of the main character.
- Director: Robert Glinski
- Principal Cast: Mateusz Wieclawek, Marianna Zydek, Adrian Brzakala, Zbigniew Stryj, Maciej Mikolajczyk
- Country: Poland
- Year: 2023
- Running Time: 106 min.
- Language: Polish
- Has Subtitles: Yes