19th Portland Jewish Film Festival
LITTLE ROSE
DIRECTOR: JAN KIDAWA-BLONSKI
POLAND, 2010
Loosely based on renowned Polish author Pawel Jasienica’s autobiographical thriller, LITTLE ROSE tells the erotically charged story of a beautiful young woman recruited by the secret police to disgrace a Jewish professor. Set against the backdrop of anti-Semitism in 1968 Poland and government efforts to discredit intellectuals and other dissident voices, the brutish Colonel Rozek convinces his sexy but naive girlfriend Kamila to spy on the writer and suspected Zionist Warczewski. Uninterested in Communist ideology, she nonetheless agrees to seduce the academic and gather evidence against him, operating under the code name Róeyczka (Little Rose). As their relationship deepens, loyalties waver, and a dangerous love triangle develops. (118 mins.)
Winner, Best Film and Best Actress, Gydnia Film Festival; Best Director, Moscow Film Festival.