The Case of Bronek Pekosinski(1993)

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski Synopsis

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski (1993) is a documentary and drama film directed by Grzegorz Królikiewicz, released on November 19, 1993 with a runtime of 1h 26m. It stars Bronisław Pekosiński, Maria Klejdysz, Anna Seniuk and Franciszek Trzeciak. Viewers rate it 4.3 out of 10 across 6 ratings.