Questions about this film *spoilers*

- Why did Antek cut out Ula's head in the erotic photographs of her? And who was the "well-wisher" who sent Antek the photographs in the first place? This was never resolved.

Maybe it was Tomek who sent the photographs. This guy was in love with her all the time. Maybe he thought their marriage would be finished if Antek found out about Ula's past?


- As Ula enters the hypnotist's apartment block to visit him for the second time, a bearded man with glasses bangs on a window - he appears to be trapped and trying to get her attention. Ula ignores him and walks on by. Who was this? I have absolutely no idea what this was about.

I think this man was nobody. Unlucky guy trapped in en elevator. She ignores him because she cares only about her own misery. She admitted this before in the movie.

I think the bearded man was Blackbeard, who died earlier on. Kind of a ghostly echo of the first visit to the hypnotist, I guess.

- In the final scene between Ula and Tomek, why does Ula pick a hole in the toe of her tights and why does the camera focus on this? What does it symbolise?

The twisting shows Ula's inner anguish, which is not evident from the calmness she projects in speaking with Tomek.


- Why did Antek cut out Ula's head in the erotic photographs of her? And who was the "well-wisher" who sent Antek the photographs in the first place? This was never resolved.

I assumed that it was a government agent who sent the photographs to Antek, to cause discord in his marriage, and as a blackmail threat to try and silence an attorney who represented political prisoners.

It's not clear why Antek cut out Ula's head from the photographs. It separates her identity (her image, representing his view of Ula in his life?) from the photographs, while not altogether denying the existence of the photographs.


- As Ula enters the hypnotist's apartment block to visit him for the second time, a bearded man with glasses bangs on a window - he appears to be trapped and trying to get her attention. Ula ignores him and walks on by. Who was this? I have absolutely no idea what this was about.

I agree with a previous responder that this was just someone trapped in the elevator, about whom Ula cared little, because she was too absorbed in her grief.


- After the trial concludes, why does Labrador mime shooting himself in the head?

It was his last trial, so it marks his professional death, so to speak. As far as we can tell, Labrador has no life outside of his legal career. For him retirement may well be akin to death.


- Where did Tomek emigrate to? On my DVD, the subtitles say he's going "back, via Canada". But "back" to where?

The U.S., I assume.


- What is a British/American guy doing in Warsaw in 1982 at the height of the crackdown?

He's probably there to meet hot Polish babes.


- Doesn't Ula care about her son? How can she do that to her son by killing herself?

She clearly loved her son. Given that, it is pathological for her to be so absorbed in her grief so as to kill herself when and how she did.


-- TopFrog