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Tatarak (2009)

Tatarak poster
Directed by
Andrzej Wajda
Genre
drama film
Country
Poland
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An aging woman in 1950s Poland begins a relationship with a younger man that brings her a sense of renewal. The film is also framed by the lead actress speaking about her husband's death from cancer.

melancholicintrospectiveslow-pacedpoignantbittersweetmeditativeemotionalreflective

What happens

Sweet Rush (Polish: Tatarak) is a 2009 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Wajda. The film won the Alfred Bauer Prize (in tie with Giant) at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. The film is set in a small town in Poland in the late 1950s, where an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband Edward Kłosiński from cancer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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