Dir. Magnus von Horn | Poland, Sweden, Denmark | 2024
An expressionist horror about the most infamous serial child murderer in history — an Academy Award nominee for 2025
123'
Fiction
9 November, 18:00 Warsaw, Kinoteka
Set against the grim backdrop of World War I Copenhagen unfolds the tragic story of Karoline, a seamstress dreaming of escaping poverty through marriage to a factory owner. When an unwanted pregnancy shatters her hopes, she finds herself on the brink of survival — rejected by society and stripped of all means, she turns to an illegal abortion. After the failed procedure, Karoline is found by the mysterious Dagmar, who offers her salvation — but the price of this “help” proves terrifyingly high. Magnus von Horn transforms a true story into an oppressive black-and-white odyssey through a woman’s body and soul, where filth, pain, and compassion merge into a hypnotic, almost physical cinematic parable about poverty, motherhood, and the loss of humanity.