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The Constant Factor (Polish: Constans) is a 1980 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a young man struggling to face the death of his mother and harbouring a desire to climb the Himalayas as his father had done.
Sep 19, 1980 · With Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Cezary Morawski. A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.
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- Drama
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- 1980-09-19
Through its hero’s eyes—and the travails of a righteous and honest man—we see, at the end of the 1970s, what’s become of the Communist dream. One of Zanussi’s most acclaimed films and the winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Trailer.
A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- 4
The Constant Factor. Monday 10 September 2012. Written by TM. Time Out says. Putting a youthful idealist under the microscope, Zanussi demonstrates that in a Communist bureaucracy the constant...
Separated from Camouflage by three years, The Constant Factor continues Krzysztof Zanussi's ideological warfare against the Orwellian machinery of communist oppression. However, this time he employed the biblical story of Job as a narrative template.
The Constant Factor - watch online: streaming, buy or rent. Currently you are able to watch "The Constant Factor" streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel. Synopsis. A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying.
