Winter of the Crow

10/21/2026

Glasnost hadn't quite got to General Jaruzelski's Poland, even if Lech Walesa's "Solidarity" movement was already shaking the communist regime by 1981. That's where the slightly aloof psychology professor "Andrews" (Lesley Manville) is headed to give a lecture at a university. Barely has she started her presentation, though, when it is hijacked by some protesting students - and that's just the start of her unexpected exposure to a rebellion in which her host/interpreter "Alina" (Zofia Wichlacz) is heavily involved. What now ensues sees her come to some fairly stark realisations about the brutality and oppressiveness of the regime and encounter some dangers of her own all whilst, sadly, serendipity takes an increasingly unlikely role in the proceedings. Manville delivers steadily, but there