Self-Portrait with a Lover (1997)

  • NR
  • 04/30/1997 (US)
  • Romance, Drama
  • 1h 23m

Overview

It is July 1995. Kuba Mitura and his little daughter, Zuza, come to a great concert organised by Jurek Owsiak. Kuba tells the girl the story of his youth. It is 1988. The nineteen-year-old Kuba is a rebellious boy with two-coloured hair. He does not study or work. He lives with his father, a retired military man, bitter and apodictic and with his aunt. One day Kuba meets Diana, a beautiful and eccentric woman, a dozen or so years older than him, a person from the "hostile world". However, the two of them become friends. The father throws Cuba out of the house when he introduces Diana as his fiancée. Soon Diana and Cuba get married to a "hippie", but the military policemen, who have been sent by the father, take Cuba away. In the army, Cuba is doing absurd exercises under the watchful eye of Corporal Kos trying to raise him. The father takes the oath and Diana, who confesses to Cuba that she is pregnant and wants to give birth. But Cuba does not want to become a father.

Radosław Piwowarski

Director, Writer

Cast

Katarzyna Figura's headshot

Katarzyna Figura

Diana
Waldemar Błaszczyk's headshot

Waldemar Błaszczyk

Kuba
Jerzy Trela's headshot

Jerzy Trela

Józef Mitura, ojciec Kuby
Mirosław Baka's headshot

Mirosław Baka

kapral Kos
Marek Kondrat's headshot

Marek Kondrat

mąż Diany
Halina Wyrodek's headshot

Halina Wyrodek

ciotka
Marcelina Zjawińska's headshot

Marcelina Zjawińska

córka Diany i Kuby
Tomasz Bednarek's headshot

Tomasz Bednarek

partner męża Diany

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