The Girl from the Wardrobe

Jun 14, 2013

1h 28m

★ 5.8

Overview

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

CANAL+ Polska

Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych

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Cast

Magda

Magdalena Różańska

Tomek

Wojciech Mecwaldowski

Jacek

Piotr Głowacki

Krzysztof

Eryk Lubos

Kwiatkowska

Teresa Sawicka

Anna

Magdalena Popławska

Andrzej

Sebastian Stankiewicz

Dr. Piotrowski

Wojciech Kalarus

Weronika

Marcela Stanko

Aga

Olga Bołądź

Tomas Mayer

Actress

Edyta Olszówka

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