Maria Pakulnis’s Typical Vibe
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Maria Pakulnis has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by On the Silver Globe.
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A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
Dir. Andrzej Żuławski · With Andrzej Seweryn, Michał Bajor, Jerzy Trela
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.
Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski · With Daniel Olbrychski, Maria Pakulnis, Joanna Szczepkowska

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski · With Grażyna Szapołowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini
Talent and passion for music can take one to the very top. On the way, however, there are going to be showbiz traps.
Dir. Anna Wieczur · With Katarzyna Sawczuk, Maciej Zakościelny, Anita Sokołowska
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