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THE LECTURE

By Kasia ADAMIK

Historical - Pre-Production 2023

The Lecture is a cold war thriller, set in a surreal and cinematic setting of 1981 Warsaw under communist Martial Law.

No heroes, no spies, just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Historical, Female director, Thriller
- Countries
- POLAND, LUXEMBOURG, CZECH REPUBLIC
- Languages
- ENGLISH, POLISH
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Kasia ADAMIK
- Writer(s)
- Sandra BUCHTA
- Producer(s)
- Olga CHAJDAS (WILD MOUSE), Katarzyna OZGA (IRIS PRODUCTIONS), Nicolas STEIL (IRIS PRODUCTIONS), Sarka CIMBALOVA (MARLENE FILM PRODUCTION), Agnieszka HOLLAND, Paul MILLER, Sam TAYLOR, Janusz WACHALA
- Synopsis
- Warsaw, December 13, 1981: Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And a British professor, Gillian Andrews who just arrived the night before, finds herself lost like a rat in a maze, trapped in an anonymous satellite town.
  When she witnesses the murder of a student (the brother of her contact in Warsaw) by an officer of the secret police Gillian becomes a target – and, involuntarily, takes a stand on the side of David battling Goliath.
  Isolated and without any means of communication she is left to rely on intuition, survival instinct and imagination. She has to outsmart a totalitarian regime and its communication ban by smuggling photographs incriminating the regime out of Poland.