The Crown Witness

The Crown Witness

2007 · 97 min · ★ 5.1 · Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime, Romance

Blacha, an ex-middleman in the criminal underground, is the key witness in an enormous Pruszkow mafia bust. As such he is kept under lock and key hidden away from the world. Intent on getting an interview with the ex-gangster is Marcin Kruk, whose pregnant wife was collateral damage in a mafia car-bomb several years back with Blacha being his main suspect. Fortunately Blacha holds Marcin's journalistic work in very high regard, hence agrees to an exclusive interview in a secluded hotel in the Hel peninsula. There he retreads his criminal life...

Directed by Jarosław Sypniewski · Written by Wojciech Tomczyk

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Paweł Małaszyński Marcin Kruk
Robert Więckiewicz Jan "Blacha" Blachowski
Artur Żmijewski Paweł Sikora
Małgorzata Foremniak Mira Blachowska
Urszula Grabowska Iwona Filska
Alicja Dąbrowska Małgorzata Sarnecka
Szymon Bobrowski Władysław Różycki "Skalpel"
Andrzej Grabowski Jarosław Kowalik "Kowal"
Andrzej Zieliński Andrzej Basiak "Mnich"
Maciej Kozłowski Roman Kraus "Szybki"
Krzysztof Globisz Robert Gazda
Janusz Chabior Ryszard Nowak "Rysiek"

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