THE RELIABLE SYSTEM
synopsis
Maria is more than 80 years old. She comes from an aristocratic family that declined after the war. She lives humbly from her pension, alone in her studio flat. Maria has a secret admirer whom she teaches French. She seems like an ordinary old lady. Yet nobody knows that Maria regularly plays roulette. Inher life there is a secret related to gambling...and a diamond necklace.
international title: | The Reliable System |
original title: | Niezawodny system |
country: | Poland |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Izabela Szylko |
film run: | 80' |
release date: | PL 16/05/2008 |
screenplay: | Izabela Szylko |
cast: | Alina Janowska, Wojciech Siemion, Szymon Bobrowski, Katarzyna Cynke, Piotr Fronczewski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Slawomir Orzechowski, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Ludwika Najbauer |
cinematography by: | Wojciech Staroń |
film editing: | Ewa Smal |
music: | Grzegorz Turnau |
producer: | Wlodzimierz Niderhaus |
production: | WFDiF - Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych |
backing: | Polish Film Institute |
distributor: | Fundacja Promocji Kina "Film Polski" |