Once Upon a Time in November

"The Saddest Fairy Tale You Will See in Cinemas"

Culture.Pl
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
  • : Adam Bajerski
  • Poland 2017
  • 88 minutes
  • Polish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Law student Mareczek, and his mother Agata, a teacher, have been forcibly evicted from their Warsaw apartment. The two find themselves at the mercy of bureaucratic whims, and temporary shelters won’t let them in with their dog. In a social system where nobody cares about the poor and rules are more important than empathy, the two face new indignities every day.

Andrzej Jakimowski combines footage of the November 2016 demonstrations in Warsaw in a social drama that shows how the middle class is only a few missteps away from losing it all.


  • Director Andrzej Jakimowski
  • Production Andrzej Jakimowski
  • Script Andrzej Jakimowski
  • Cinematography Adam Bajerski
  • Editing Cezary Grzesiuk
  • Music Tomasz Gassowski
  • Festivals Warsaw, Göteborg, Sofia, Istanbul
  • Actors Grzegorz Palkowski, Agata Kulesza, Edward Hogg
  • Source Wide, Paris

Adam Bajerski