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Sam4.0

First of all thank you @JasonCane for the recommendation and I appreciate everyone who has recommended me films in the list. Interrogation or known as Przesłuchanie in Poland is an incredibly bleak look into political repression and a scathing look into the polish communist regime of the time. The film takes place in the early 1950s at the peak of the Stalin controlled Poland a era filled with terror and paranoia and follows Tonia a cabaret singer who is attested without and reason and is subjected to brutal degrading interrogations. It’s a disgustingly dark film which utilises the grey grimy four walls of a prison to bring so much genuine terror and realism to Tonia’s surroundings and shows a deeply intimate look into her gradual emotional disintegration. Krystyna Janda Is incredibly here as Tonia a character once filled with drunken laughter to eventually a worn down husk of a person but she brings so much defiance and despair to this film she sells this role all too well and is some of the greatest acting I’ve seen in a long while. Even in her weakest moments she brings a certain resilience to the role regardless of her claustrophobic surrounds breaking her down. The directing is an incredible Feat too the prison is ruthless it feels tiny and degrading we feel as restrained as Tonia with the use of the dark grey walls and shadows there’s not a single slither of melodrama or hope to be found. I gotta commend Ryszard Bugajski’ for making such an uncompromising film which was delayed by several years for how much of a revelation it was of the system. It’s honestly one of the most important political films I’ve seen and I can’t thank @JasonCane enough for this great recommendation.If anybody wants to recommend me a film just comment them Here

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"4.5

"Interrogation" is a 1982 (1989) film directed by Ryszard Bugajski. The reasoning for the two dates is that as it was produced and intended upon release in 1982, it was banned by the Polish Communist Government. Finally, as the fall of Communist came about in 1989, this film was released into public viewing. Conditionally it was also submitted into the Cannes film festival where the films lead Krystyna Janda won for best actress. The film itself was nominated for the Palme d'Or but lost to David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" (1990).The film is based upon the character of Antonina Dziwisz who lives in Poland during Joseph Stalin's "Iron Curtain". Being a cabaret singer and dancer by trade, she spends one evening of heavy drinking only to wake up and find that she is held in custody of the controlling government. Unbeknownst to her, she has been retained due to suspicion of espionage, specifically being a courier of information between sources. While she might not have any idea of why she is being accosted and retained, the moral of the story ultimately becomes less about actual guilt and more about her captures gaining her admittance of guilt regardless of truth. This is when "Interrogation" becomes a strong-willed story of Dziwisz mentality to both stand her ground of innocent and to simply survive.As U.S.S.R. held its grasp on much of the eastern elements of Europe in a directly post WW2 climate, there were naturally the elements of actual espionage and governmental paranoia to keep secrecy contained. Being U.S. citizen, I easily heard the stories of this time from my domestic front within themes of things like the presented "Red Scare". Probably the most prevalent application that gets played out cinematically (due to it directly affecting Hollywood which produces the films in general) is that of the Hollywood Blacklists. It goes without questions that there are far more stories of paranoia and those affected thereof, on both sides of the equation. With that being said, I found it interesting to see a story from this viewpoint and region on the other side. As there really is no need to go into tangents of political beliefs in general between the opposing mentalities, the one clear element is that there is a shared paranoia complete with destructive hasty measure from all over. Ultimately the film is a tandem exercise in showcasing the stripping of humanity by the controlling power but also core strength in one that keeps a source of power within them. In the end, "Interrogation" is an extremely powerful and well-done film that will shake you at your core and yet is largely overflown by the general viewing public. I appreciate its daring nature of being made within the climate it was birthed within. It's sort of crazy that it was allowed to be produced in the first place in the country it was birthed within (thus adding to the story of it being made and then banned for seven years) but nonetheless I'm glad this was created, and I was able to take in its harrowing story.

Milez Das5.0

Set in Communist Poland 1951, a film banned for 7 years. Interrogations is a story about Tonia. a cabaret singer who performs for soldiers. One day she is arrested without being told why, and placed in a political military prison to be interrogated. With questions being asked about her personal affairs, from her first kiss, losing her virginity, how many men she has slept with...With her constant asking why is she being held in this prison, the answer sets in motion of her former incidental lover who is now imprisoned for espionage. Tonia is told to sign an confession to crimes she hasn't committed. She is humiliated, tortured, paced in a small cell where the room is flooded with water. Everytime her resistant to sign that confession, you see an abusive system and its officials who know what are they doing. Directed by Ryszard Bugajski, Interrogation sets in motion about a woman and her stand and not giving in to crimes she hasn't committed. She is exhausted, you can see all over face. Her eyes drained out, still she stands in front of the officials who try everything. There is a scene in the cell where on of the cellmate tells her that the only way to get out this is to be guilty, even if you haven't done something make something up, the authorities know what they are doing. Krystyna Janda as Antonina 'Tonia' Dziwisz fully transforms herself for this role. When you see her when the film opens with her fully spirited attitude for life which slowly starts to gut it down with every passing moment. You don't know how many years she has been in there, you see the injustice done to her. With a performance like this I almost felt like I was watching a documentary as the movie captures something so real that your whole body has goosebumps all over. Interrogation makes you stand still as you you never shift your eyes from the frame. With a realistic performance from Krystyna Janda who transforms herself to a point that you see her as a different person altogether from what you saw when the film opened and what you see when the film ends. You see enduring everything that is thrown at her, even feeling lost at herself one point. Interrogation becomes a reality that shows abuse of power possessed by the officers offered by the system and the regime under the Stalinist pro-Soviet Polish . Throwing in innocent people , trying them for crimes they didn't commit, abusing and torturing them until they have exhausted themselves of her everything. And how did this movie exactly lost Palme d'Or that went to Wild at Heart?