Conversation with a Cupboard Man (1994)

5.8/10 90 min Drama

Overview

Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Charles' tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Charles starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.

Cast

Bożena Adamek

Mother

Rafał Olbrychski

Karol

Adam Ferency

Chef

Marek Walczewski

Teacher

Stanisława Celińska

Postwoman

Leon Niemczyk

Inspector

Ewa Frąckiewicz

Mrs Weiss

Marek Siudym

Mother's Fiance

Piotr Pawłowski

Death

Wiesława Mazurkiewicz

Gravedigger

Katarzyna Bargiełowska

Young Cook

Zofia Kopacz

Cook

Barbara Marszałek

Job Office Clerk

Gabriela Muskała

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