New World

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New World

2015

1h 30m

6.9(4 votes)

Drama

Overview

Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love.

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11 members

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Лёля Кавалай-Аксёнова

Żanna Łuckiewicz

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Julian Świeżewski

Jan

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Dominika Maiseyenka

Sonia

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Svetlana Anikej

Irina

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Hassan Akkouch

Azzam

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Dariusz Chojnacki

Łukasz

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Irena Melcer

Ewa

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Sebastian Fabijański

Żołnierz Artur

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Alicja Juszkiewicz

The Bride

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Elżbieta Czerwińska

The professor

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Barbara Wypych

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