Recommended Film: The Debt Collector
Recommended Films. Polish Grit. Warsaw. Feliks Falk. Andrzej Chyra. Grzegorz Loszewski.
The Debt Collector (2005) is directed by Feliks Falk with a screenplay by Grzegorz Loszewski. It also stars Andrzej Chyra and is based on true events.
Chyra plays Lucek a hard-hearted debt collector, working in one of Poland’s most deprived areas, who mercilessly repossesses anything he can – including vital machines from hospitals and even a statue of the Virgin Mary. But, as the film progresses, Lucek starts to have doubts and he pulls so hard on the strings of his life that the whole thing unravels as he experiences an ‘epiphany’ that turns him into a decent human being.
The Debt Collector is almost painfully naturalistic and very well acted but, although it does have a more optimistic ending than The Debt, it’s just as effective in showing the hard side of life.