Filip

Based on Leopold Tyrmand’s 1961 autobiographical novel of the same name, Filip follows a Polish Jew (Kulm) who has escaped the Warsaw ghetto and is living and working at an upscale hotel in Frankfurt. Disguised as a gentile, Filip lives a life of debauchery and hedonistic pleasure. But as the war progresses and continues taking its bloody toll on those closest to him, Filip’s carefully constructed facade begins crumbling like a house of cards. Michał Kwieciński writes, directs, and produces this fascinating portrait of wartime resistance and the lengths to which we go to protect ourselves.