Persona non grata

Wiktor, Polish ambassador in Uruguay, is painfully struggling with the death of his wife. After coming back to Poland, he meets Oleg, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, a friend from twenty years ago when he himself was an underground activist and Oleg made his first steps in Polish Soviet diplomacy. Their friendship is scarred with two suspicions, though. Wiktor presumes that Oleg was infiltrating Polish underground and was his wife’s lover.

Written by: Krzysztof Zanussi
Director of photography: Edward Kłosiński
Music by: Wojciech Kilar
Production design by: Jagna Janicka
Costume design by: Jagna Janicka
Editing: Wanda Zeman
Sound: Wiesław Znyk
Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz (Wiktor), Nikita Michałkow (Oleg), Jerzy Stuhr (legal adviser), Daniel Olbrychski (deputy minister), Andrzej Chyra (Waldemar), Maria Bekker (Oksana), Halina Golanko (Wiktor’s wife), Marcin Kwaśny (man)
Production manager: Michał Szczerbic
Produced by: Studio Filmowe “Tor”
Co-produced by: Leonid Vereschagin, Nikita Michałkow – Three T Productions, 11 Maly Kozikhinsky Lane, Moskwa 103001, Sintra, Telewizja Polska S.A. – Agencja Filmowa
Executive producer: Studio Filmowe “Tor”
Producers: Krzysztof Zanussi, Iwona Ziułkowska-Okapiec
Distributed by: Vision Film Distribution