No End (1985)

Highly Recommended

Poland

Feature Film

Original Title: Bez konca

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Writers: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz

Cinematographer: Jacek Petrycki

Composer: Zbigniew Preisner

Cast: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Artur Barcis, Michal Bajor, Marek Kondrat, Tadeusz Bradecki, Danny Webb

When a ballsy young lawyer dies of a heart attack at a time of martial law, he leaves behind a wife, a son, and a potentially dangerous case defending a strike leader, which ends up in the hands of an older, more conservative barrister, in this beautifully acted, sensitively shot, and outstandingly scored film, which informs, moves, and provokes in equal measure. Iain.Stott