Conversation with a Cupboard Man

Conversation with a Cupboard Man

1994 · 90 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama

Karol 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. Karol's 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 Karol starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.

Directed by Mariusz Grzegorzek · Written by Mariusz Grzegorzek

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