No End
No End is a 1985 film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Grażyna Szapołowska, Maria Pakulnis, and Aleksander Bardini. The film is about the state of martial law in Poland after the banning of the trade union Solidarity in 1981. Kieślowski worked with several regular collaborators for the first time on No End.
Plot
The ghost of Antek Zyro, an attorney, breaks the fourth wall, explaining he suffered a heart attack while driving and was killed in a car accident. He leaves behind his wife, Urszula (nicknamed "Ula"), and his son Jacek. A month later, Ula receives a phone call from Joanna Stach, the wife of her husband's last client, Darek Stach. She requests the legal documents relating to her husband's case, but Ula is unable to provide them. Joanna reminds Ula of Mieczyslaw Labrador, an older lawyer Antek had clerked for.
More details
| author | Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Poland |
| director | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| editor | Krystyna Rutkowska |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | apprentice lawyer arrest burn car accident christmas party drive fourth wall hear heart attack hunger strike kill law student phone call prison cell prison sentence session solidarity struggle trade union |
| musicBy | Zbigniew Preisner |
| producer | Ryszard Chutkowski |