No End (film)

No End
Film poster for Bez końca
Directed by	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Produced by	Ryszard Chutkowski
Written by	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Starring	Grażyna Szapołowska Maria Pakulnis Aleksander Bardini Artur Barciś Danny Webb
Music by	Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography	Jacek Petrycki
Editing by	Krystyna Rutkowska
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	109 min.
Country	Poland
Language	Polish

No End (Polish: Bez końca) is a 1985 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski ultimately concerning the state of Martial law in Poland after the banning of the trade union Solidarity in 1981.

No End was Kieślowski's first writing collaboration with the screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who co-wrote the screenplays for all of Kieślowski's subsequent films. The film is also the first of Kieślowski's with music by Zbigniew Preisner, who provided the musical score for most of Kieślowski's subsequent films. As in later films, Preisner's score is explicitly referenced by the characters in the film itself, in this case with the main character's son playing the theme on a piano at home.

Plot summary

A Polish translator, Ulla (Grażyna Szapołowska), grieves her recently deceased lawyer husband. As she copes with her loss, the family of her husband's last client, Darek Stach, contacts her in need of legal documents and advice. Ulla struggles with caring for her son, and alternately trying to remember and to forget her husband, while Darek struggles to come to terms with his imprisonment for political dissidence. Ulla's husband's ghost observes these events, occasionally becoming visible to Ulla and Darek.

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External links

• No End at the Internet Movie Database