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Yoko Ono's Cups

dir. Andrzej Mańkowski / Poland 2009 / 22’

subtitles: English

Polish Short Movies Competition 7109 km, A Tag, All Anna's Little Lies, An Idea, Blue, Canal, Charon Taxi, Chasm, Chemo, Chick, City With No God, Decalogue 89+ – the Seventh: Street Feeling, Different Story, Early Learning, Grandma Has Gone, Hands, Happy Jews, I Know Who Did It, Incantatio, Inventorium of Traces, Kids and Fish Have No Voice, Last Supper, Long Distance Runner, Long Live The Funeral!!!, Lucky, Meles Meles, Merry Christmas, Mother, Mr. F, Nowhere Blues, Observe the Sabbath and Keep It Holy, On Credit, Panta Rhei, Pause, Polish Film Novel, Pupeeds, Puppets, Rabbit a la Berlin, Scream, Sicilian Flea, Side Track, Six Weeks, Sleep-Walkers, Strawberry Fields, Szeol, The Actors, The Answer, The Bay, The Contract, The Day After Tomorrow, The Gravediggers, The Incident, The Lucky Ones, The Rest of the World, Vena cava, What the Doctors Say, Where the Sun Doesn't Rush, Yoko Ono's Cups Section index

Cast

Kornelia Angowska, Edyta Łukaszewicz-Lisowska, Marcin Bortkiewicz, Monika Goździk, Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Mariusz Żarnecki, Bogdan Smagacki, Zbigniew Olszewski

Film description

A story of tearing away from own roots seeking oneself. The main character 19-year-old Janka comes from a catholic family. She lives with her parents in a small polish town near the Russian border. One day she meets an eccentric Russian, Sara. Emotions consequential to this becomes for Janka a beginning of a set of humiliations. Film was produced as a part of cycle Dekalog 89+ and refers to the ninth commandment of the Decalogue: You shall not covet your neighbour's wife.