In this thrilling cat-and-mouse thriller, a British professor witnesses a crime in martial-law governed Warsaw, becoming herself a target of the secret police.
Warsaw, Winter 1981: As the communist Polish government attempts to quash a rising solidarity movement, respected British psychology professor Joan Andrews (Lesley Manville), visiting the city’s university for a guest lecture, witnesses a student's murder, immediately placing a major target on her back. Suddenly on the run, with no papers and or minders, Andrews must navigate a strange, blizzard-hit city, with little way of telling friend from foe. Even a British ambassador (Tom Burke) isn’t quite as straightforwardly comforting as you’d hope. Manville carries the film with an air of increasingly raw determination, the professor’s entitlement and irritability giving way to unblinking self-preservation instincts when required. Think Emma Thompson in 2025’s ‘Dead of Winter’. (Some subtitles)
Poland/UK 2026 Kasia Adamik 112m
