Medium (1985)

Director
Jacek Koprowicz

Main cast
Władysław Kowalski; Michal Bajor; Jerzy Zelnik; Jerzy Stuhr; Grażyna Szapołowska

Genres
Horror, Thriller

Description
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier


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