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- flirtatious, openly sexualised and a women of few inhibitions.
- free going, frivolous
- Strong from the outset
- Doesn't follow rules
- ___Mira___
- mira reflects two sides to a single personality. as they compliment each other at various moments.
- mira is destroyed in their final meeting at the hospital. tonia cannot reach her. she can therefore be seen as the destructive personality the encaptures tonias time in jail and upon her leaving is also discarded.
- ___Tonia___
- Unbreakable spirit.( is her real crime)
- tonias experience in the warsaw bombings gave her an intrinsic need to rebel against the normal.
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- Played by actress Krystyna Janda
- Tonia is a cabaret singer- an atypically serious occupation7
- A randomly picked victim of the communist regime.
- she uses her feminine attributes as weapons. as she is forced to ***** it is expected that she would be humiliated but that is not the case. she does it with force and power and can also speak powerfully. she wins by not breaking.
- She empowers herself through what is visually seen as a vulnerable action.
- the role was written for a woman to show how the normal underdog can still be a person who has strength. sticks up for her own moral code of behaviour regardless of society's beliefs.
- she thinks for herself and therefore is not a victim of propaganda.
- The Polish Mother - the mother of sons willingly sacrificed for polands independence.
- womanhood = motherhood. one is only a fully fledged woman when one becomes a mother
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- She becomes like a small animal, bagging for her life to end at the hands of her interrogator.
- as her trial goes on she is more and more dignified. the camera uses close ups of her face to show these expressions.
- she will not say what they want her to because it is simply not the truth. her interrogators are closed minded unlike herself.
- Tonia is devoted to her marriage and establishes early how this is a source of strength for her.- in the dream scene she runs towards her husband-however he is now seeking a divorce. she is overwhelmed by the weak personality of her husband.
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- Stalinism - 1949-56. compared with Nazi idealism.
- Nikita Krushchev's speech delivered at 20th congress of the communist party in 1956 where he renounced stalin's rule and crimes and created a time of thaw from Polands 'time of errors and distractions'
- Honorata- Kills the man who tries to make her give up part of her self by taking her voters form
- Zawada is the bad, bad guy. Morawski is set up to be the not so bad, bad guy ( an auschwitz survivor)
- the stalinist regime reduced all data to an essentially good vs bad propaganda.
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