Lesley Manville travels to 1981 Poland in Kasia Adamik ’s “ Winter of the Crow .”

Premiering at TIFF and then closing San Sebastián , it’s based on Nobel and Booker Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s short story about a British professor who finds herself in the middle of unrest caused by the introduction of martial law. It debuts clip here:

“I was young, but I remember these events in Poland. My character, Joan, goes there to give a lecture and she’s caught up in something she knows nothing of. It’s hard to imagine, isn’t it? You’re thrown into this kind of political chaos in a country that isn’t your own, where you’re not familiar with anything or anybody,” says Manville.

Soon, Joan ends up on the run with young radicals.

“I’d be horrified if I turned up to do a professional engage

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