Elzbieta Okupska

The film is based on the last years in the life of Rafal Wojaczek, a self-destructive Polish poet who attained legendary status when he committed suicide at the age of twenty-six. (BFI.org.uk)

A love story between a scrapper and a young woman. Seen through the monotony of everyday life the film depicts the hardships of a rural community in present-day Poland. (imdb)

Young Adam’s mother is persecuted by the state police because his father fought in WWII as a pilot before disappearing. Adam fantasizes about his father and one day, while watching Godard’s Contempt in the cinema, finds himself transported into the dressing room of Brigitte Bardot and into a world where he meets a coterie of her contemporary celebrities.