53 Wars

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Ewa Bukowska
  • Poland 2018
  • 79 minutes
  • Polish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Anna and Witek, a young married couple, are very much in love. He is a war correspondent who spends the better part of the year at the heart of raging conflicts. Her days are spent waiting for him to come home. She tries to lead a normal life, but her fears for Witek start to overcome her efforts. She begins preparing herself for the worst...

The feature debut of Polish actress Ewa Bukowska is “an inventively wrought and thought-provoking psychological drama” (Screen). The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Grażyna Jagielska

Feature Debut


  • Director Ewa Bukowska
  • Production Jacek Bromski, Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuścisńki
  • Script Ewa Bukowska
  • Cinematography Tomasz Naumiuk
  • Editing Agnieszka Glińska
  • Music Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieślak
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Magdalena Popławska, Michał Żurawski, Kinga Preis, Dorota Kolak
  • Source Munk Studio, Warsaw