The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Directed by Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze
gypsy
poetry
poet
woman director
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Letterboxd
3.8 / 5
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Cast
Jowita Budnik
Bronisława 'Papusza' Wajsová
Zbigniew Waleryś
Dionizy Wajs
Antoni Pawlicki
Jerzy Ficowski
Artur Steranko
Lieutenant Czarnecki
Andrzej Walden
Julian Tuwim
Joanna Niemirska
Wanda Ficowska
Ewa Worytkiewicz
Shop Assistant
Jerzy Gudejko
Minister
Krzysztof Bochenek
Janitor
Ryszard Mróz
Prison Manager
Elżbieta Okupska
Fat Peasant Woman
Jerzy Pal
Headmaster
Crew
Krzysztof Krauze
Director
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Director
Joanna Kos-Krauze
Screenplay
Krzysztof Krauze
Screenplay
Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
Original Music Composer
Krzysztof Szpetmański
Editor
Krzysztof Ptak
Director of Photography
Wojciech Staroń
Director of Photography
Lambros Ziotas
Producer
Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska
Production Manager
Magdalena Biedrzycka
Costume Design
Anna Nobel
Key Makeup Artist
Popular Reviews
5 reviews
Pavlo Huk
9.0★ · 06/26/23
this film felt so vivid and colourful in its more splendid cinematographic scenes even being monochromatic, but at the same time that b&w showed us the most saddest and rawest of her story which makes it everything very poetic in a rhythm that comes and go like her poems.
this film felt so vivid and colourful in its more splendid cinematographic scenes even being monochromatic, but at the same time that b&w showed us the most saddest and rawest of her story which makes it everything very poetic in a rhythm that comes and go like her poems.