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<\/p>\n3 September 2026\n <\/p>\n
Lesley Manville battles spies, political violence and the freezing streets of Cold War Warsaw in her new thriller Winter of the Crow.<\/p>\n
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Lesley Manville battles spies, political violence and the freezing streets of Cold War Warsaw in her new thriller Winter of the Crow<\/p>\n
The actress, 70, stars as British psychiatry professor Joan Andrews in director Kasia Adamik\u2019s upcoming drama, which Cohen Media Group will release in US cinemas on October 9. <\/p>\n
Inspired by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s short story Professor Andrews Goes to Warsaw, the film follows Joan after she arrives in Poland as a guest lecturer in December 1981, only to become trapped when martial law is imposed and the country effectively shuts down overnight.<\/p>\n
Joan is carrying a Polaroid camera when she witnesses the secret police committing a brutal murder. <\/p>\n
With Poland sealed off and her own life in danger, she goes into hiding and becomes a fugitive while attempting to navigate a Warsaw transformed by repression and violence.<\/p>\n
\nThe cast also includes Tom Burke, who starred in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Souvenir, Andrzej Konopka, Sascha Ley and Zofia Wich\u0142acz.<\/p>\n
\nKasia was quoted by Variety saying: \u201cWinter of the Crow is deeply personal to me, and I wanted to capture the fear and uncertainty of a moment when everyday life could change in an instant. Lesley Manville brings such intelligence, strength and humanity to Joan, and I\u2019m thrilled that audiences will have the opportunity to experience her extraordinary performance \u2013\u00a0and this story \u2013\u00a0on the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe movie marks another major role for Lesley during a particularly busy period in her five-decade stage and screen career.<\/p>\n
\nShe won the 2026 Tony Award for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for portraying Jocasta opposite Mark Strong in Robert Icke\u2019s production of Oedipus on Broadway. <\/p>\n
\nThe production had previously earned Lesley her second Olivier Award when it was staged in London.<\/p>\n
\nLesley subsequently appeared at London\u2019s National Theatre in Les Liaisons Dangereuses alongside Monica Barbaro and Aidan Turner, with Marianne Elliott directing Christopher Hampton\u2019s adaptation.<\/p>\n
\nShe is also set to return to the West End in 2027 opposite Anna Maxwell Martin in a revival of Tracy Letts\u2019 August: Osage County at the No\u00ebl Coward Theatre. <\/p>\n
\nLesley will play Violet Weston, with Anna appearing as her daughter Barbara Fordham and Jeremy Herrin directing.<\/p>\n
\nHer best-known screen performances include Cyril Woodcock in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s Phantom Thread, which earned her an Academy Award nomination, and Princess Margaret in the final two seasons of Netflix royal drama The Crown, for which she received an Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n
\nLesley has also starred in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, Sherwood, Back to Black and Mike Leigh\u2019s Another Year.<\/p>\n
\nWinter of the Crow is directed by Kasia from a screenplay by Sandra Buchta, Kasia and Lucinda Coxon, with Olga Chajdas, Stanis\u0142aw Dziedzic, Katarzyna Ozga, Nicolas Steil and Samantha Taylor producing. <\/p>\n
\nRobert Aaronson, executive vice president of Cohen Media Group, said: \u201cAnchored by a remarkable performance from Lesley Manville, Kasia Adamik has created a film that is both a gripping thriller and a deeply human story.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHe added: \u201cThe screenplay truly captures the uncertainty and tension of this pivotal moment in history. We\u2019re very proud to bring it to theaters this October.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 September 2026 Lesley Manville battles spies, political violence and the freezing streets of Cold War Warsaw in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14412,14407,14415,14414,14417,13198,13201,14413,14409,14411,14406,14410,14408,13204,14416,45,13205],"class_list":["post-23865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-aidan-turner","tag-andrzej-konopka","tag-anna-maxwell-martin","tag-christopher-hampton","tag-jeremy-herrin","tag-kasia-adamik","tag-lesley-manville","tag-marianne-elliott","tag-mark-strong","tag-monica-barbaro","tag-olga-tokarczuk","tag-robert-icke","tag-sascha-ley","tag-tom-burke","tag-tracy-letts","tag-warsaw","tag-zofia-wichlacz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}