You can have a within-you / without-you experience. But, you're only watching a rehearsal and the actors are loose, having done this many times before, so they won't pressure you to TAKE IT ALL SERIOUSLY.
Be prepared for those serious issues of Fyodor D's: Chance, intent, patrimony and fraternity, predestination, and God. Three times the number of American -based viewers just saw a screening of this as Euoropean IMDb raters, brought with the Director by the Czech Embassy and the Film Curator of the National Gallery of Art. The production and rehearsal is routine for the actors, but anything but routine for the Pole, for whom is that too-well-lit roadside set of hazard lights and explanations.
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In this movie an intelligent Polish service worker with another career, handyman and building custodian, has the misfortune of preparing a makeshift set in a factory for a production of a "Karamazovs". Is theater entertainment, or do actors in performance live on the sharp edges of blades and ride the needles that cut and sew ideas and social fabrics? Professionally and dispassionately, that is, just like other workers in public service, doing their jobs. A feast for the film buff, if hard on the digestion. I almost envy the viewer who is neither aware of contemporary Eastern European history nor well acquainted with the novel, for the film is fascinating on the visual and sound levels as well. The moments of comic relief strike one with a similar inappropriateness as Fyodor Karamazov's buffonade. There must be significance in fact that the setting is the factory at Nowa Huta, a factory built at Stalin's behest and the later stage of Walesa's "Solidarnosc." The firs t, as well as last, scene of the play-within-a-play present the courtroom scene - legal justice in counterpoint to divine justice. Ivan Karamazov's atheist manifesto of returning the ticket to God's offer of paradise is somehow central. Most of the dialogue is from Dostoevsky, whether or not the actors are on stage. The suffering of children because of their parents links the major contemporary plot line with the novel. This film requires multiple viewings to untangle the complexities of life imitating art imitating life.