TEMPTATION (POKUSZENIE) Poland

In her first major role, young actress
Magdalena Cielecka shines as Anna, a
Catholic nun imprisoned for “fomenting
sedition” who’s set free after agreeing to
collaborate with the authorities. It’s the
winter of 1953, the darkest period of
Stalinism, and her assignment is to get
incriminating info on a well-known dissident
priest being held in a remote, abandoned
fort. What the secret police don’t
know is that Anna had an unrequited love
for the priest prior to taking the cloth.
Supervised by the fort’s icy commander,
she becomes part of an elaborate game
between the priest and the authorities, as
well as being pulled hither and thither by
her sexual feelings for the priest and inner
doubts about her suitability as a servant of
God. When the priest eventually confides
in her, she’s forced to make a decision. –
Derek Elley, Variety