The Constant Factor
Jun 04 1980
•1h 27m
•Drama
A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
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Tadeusz Bradecki
Witold
Zofia Mrozowska
Witold's Mother
Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Grazyna
Witold Pyrkosz
Mariusz
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