Led by: Jacek Stawiski

A moving tale of a Jewish-Polish love marked by wartime experiences.

London, 1930s. They meet only fleetingly. Before their affection unites them, the war separates them. She, a Jew from Warsaw, seeks freedom and the right to express herself on stage. He, a Catholic from a poor family in Lodz, is a promising diplomat. Years later, they will find each other in America. Jan Karski will arrive there as an emissary of the Polish government as a witness to the Shoah taking place in Europe. For this, he will receive the title of Righteous Among the Nations and be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Pola Nireńska, who will lose much of her family in the Holocaust, will go overseas to dance. After three decades, she will begin to triumph as a choreographer. What will bring them together is not what they remember together, but what they try to forget.

“Shattered” is a story about how the past never goes away, becomes the present, and determines the future. And the body remembers what the mind preferred to forget.

Partner of the event: Wydawnictwo Literackie

In Polish. Free admission.