Blindness

A lesser-known episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal, colonel of the Security Office, Julia Brystiger. She was nick-named Bloody Luna, as during interrogations she would torment the detained with exceptional cruelty.

In the early sixties Brystiger appears at the Centre for the Blind near Warsaw, which is often visited by the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. His imprisonment by the communist authorities between the years 1953-1956 was supervised by Brystiger herself. Now she really wants to meet the Primate…

written by Ryszard Bugajski
director of photography Arkadiusz Tomiak PSC
music by Shane Harvey
production design by Andrzej Haliński
set decorator Teresa Gruber
costume design by Krzysztof Łoszewski
make-up by Tomasz Matraszek, Anna Gorońska
sound by Kacper Habisiak MPSE, Marcin Kasiński MPSE, Maria Chilarecka
edited by Milenia Fiedler PSM
cast Maria Mamona, Małgorzata Zajączkowska, Janusz Gajos, Bartosz Porczyk, Marek Kalita, Kazimierz Kaczor, Sławomir Orzechowski, Marcin Troński, Krzysztof Ogłoza, Barbara Bursztynowicz, Jacek Bursztynowicz, Olga Bołądź
produced by RB Film
producer Ryszard Bugajski
co-produced by Telewizja Polska, The Society for Arts (USA), Studio Produkcyjne Orka, Mazowiecki Fundusz Filmowy, Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury, Narodowe Centrum Kultury, TMS Diagnostyka
production manager Mariusz Mielczarek
co-financed by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
distributed by Kino Świat
world sales Kino Świat