{"id":145233,"date":"2026-08-13T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/145233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:57:22","slug":"lesley-manville-in-warsaw-thriller-winter-of-the-crow-official-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/145233\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Manville in Warsaw Thriller ‘Winter of the Crow’ Official Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tLesley Manville in Warsaw Thriller ‘Winter of the Crow’ Official Trailer<\/p>\n

by Alex Billington<\/a>\t\t
August 13, 2026
Source: YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

“You don’t imagine a couple of photos will change the world, do you?” Signature Entertainment debuted the official trailer for the indie thriller from Poland titled Winter of the Crow, made by filmmaker Kasia Adamik. This initially premiered at TIFF 2025 last year and it also played at a number of other festivals last fall, with an intiial release in Poland in February earlier this year. A British professor witnesses a student’s murder by secret police in 1981 Warsaw under martial law. She becomes a target while running through the city’s streets, eventually forced to stop and take a stand. Based on a short story by Nobel Prize\u2013winner Olga Tokarczuk, the film is a thrilling cat-and-mouse game set on the eve of Poland’s Martial Law era<\/a> (~1981 to 1983), starring the supremely talented Lesley Manville. TIFF also adds that “Adamik’s expertly executed vision about a time that remains traumatic for several generations and, to this day informs national border politics, is unmissable for history buffs and film lovers alike.” The film’s cast includes Lesley Manville as Dr. Andrews, Zofia Wich\u0142acz, Andrzej Konopka, Sascha Ley, and Tom Burke. This looks like a very stylish, intricate Cold War era wintry thriller with some good reviews already. Seems like it’s worth a watch.<\/p>\n

Here’s the official trailer (+ posters) for Kasia Adamik’s film Winter of the Crow, direct from YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\"Winter<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/p>\n

Via TIFF<\/a>: “Dr. Joan Andrews (Manville), a London-based academic specializing in clinical psychology, is en route to Poland \u2014 a rarely granted privilege for foreigners \u2014 in winter 1981. She has been invited by students to present her research at the University of Warsaw. On the ground, she meets Alina (Wich\u0142acz) and a cohort of activists who have only known life under the thumb of state repression. It’s not long before hell \u2014 backed by the power of Soviet-aligned authorities \u2014 breaks loose and, as the nation moves towards a certain democratization bolstered by the Solidarity movement, martial law is declared. Suddenly, she is on the run through barren streets, now increasingly occupied by tanks and militia. As she navigates this concrete labyrinth & scrambles to return home \u2014 with the help of the British ambassador (Burke) \u2014 the absurdity of state repression is co-opted by underlying voice guiding her to be on the right side of history.”<\/p>\n

Winter of the Crow, also known as Zima pod znakiem Wrony in Polish, is directed by filmmaker Kasia Adamik<\/a>, director of the films Bark!, The Offsiders, Janosik: A True Story, Jolanta, Amok, and lots of TV work including eps of “Warrior Nun”, “No Escape”, “Star City<\/a>” most recently. The screenplay is written by Kasia Adamik, Sandra Buchta, Lucinda Coxon. From the short story “Professor Andrews Goes to Warsaw” written by Olga Tokarczuk. Produced by Olga Chajdas, Stanis\u0142aw Dziedzic, Katarzyna Ozga, Nicolas Steil, Samantha Taylor. This initially premiered at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival last year and it also played at Athens, Rome, San Sebastian, and Warsaw Film Fests. Signature Entertainment debuts Adamik’s Winter of the Crow film in UK cinemas starting October 16th, 2026<\/a>. It’ll also be out to watch in the US in October.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"Share\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more posts in: Foreign Films<\/a>, Indies<\/a>, To Watch<\/a>, Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lesley Manville in Warsaw Thriller ‘Winter of the Crow’ Official Trailer by Alex Billington August 13, 2026Source: YouTube…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[3631,69278,48618,69279,69272,69274,182,69275,32793,15647,69276,38482,181,69273,69277],"class_list":["post-145233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-cold-war","tag-foreign-films","tag-indie-film","tag-indies","tag-kasia-adamik","tag-lesley-manville","tag-poland","tag-polish-film","tag-thriller","tag-to-watch","tag-tom-burke","tag-trailer","tag-warsaw","tag-winter-of-the-crow","tag-zofia-wichlacz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117089262009777657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}