Agnieszka Holland works hard to avoid the cliches in a story that could be regarded as iconic. First of all, she refuses clear division of characters based on moral grounds (good or evil). Instead she presents main characters as humans with their own agendas and flaws of character. She also manages to make the protagonist’s transformation plausible through a fantastic performance by Robert Wieckiewicz. The film’s stylistic choices are of great importance here: as a lot of the narrative takes place in the sewers, sometimes literary in darkness, the sound design and the great cinematography from Joanna Dylewska put the viewer in the place of the protagonists greatly adding to the realism of the presentation. (Michał CHACI?SKI)