Tatarak (2009)

The film opens with a monologue by Krystyna Janda about her husband Edward Kłosiński’s death. She is in a bare room with a bed and a chair. During the monologue, the film shifts perspective to the film set, where Andrzej Wajda and Krystyna Janda read Iwaszkiewicz’s story together. The film then flows into the story itself, about Marta, the wife of a doctor, who is examined by her husband. Marta is terminally ill and will not live through the summer. Her husband, who is also her doctor, does not tell her the diagnosis. During a conversation with her friend on the bank of a river, Marta spots Boguś, a handsome young outdoorsman. Boguś is in a relationship with the young Halinka. Marta now meets regularly with the young man, who is not very well educated and whose naturalness attracts her. At a get-together to swim in the river, Boguś drowns. Marta, who had already lost her two sons in the Warsaw Uprising, loses another young person—too soon for a closer relationship to have developed. The film returns once more to Krystyna Janda in private. She talks about the day her husband died. He died on January 5, 2008, at 3:10 p.m. That evening, the actress was back on a theater stage. The film ends with the dedication, “For Edward Kłosiński.”