The Collector presents 48 hours in the life of a young, provincial debt collector named Lucek Bohme. Bohme is the best debt collector in the town of Walbrzych, Poland. His job makes him feel powerful – he collects taxes from anyone who owes, including the destitute. The law is sacred to him, but somewhere on the way he forgets that the law is made for man, not vice versa. Bohme, therefore, has no moral scruples in his work. At the start of the movie, he confiscates medical equipment belonging to the area’s only hospital as part of the hospital’s debt. But his self-confidence takes a blow when he is confronted with an incident that has a lasting effect on him. One day a debtor he mistreated hangs himself on his stairs, a shock that sets in motion a transformation. Bohme wants to change his life and compensate at least some of his recent victims. For the first time in his life, he begins to give some serious thought to what he does and seeks redemption.

Feliks Falk graduated from the Directing Department of the Lódê Polish Film School where he made his mark as a talented director of short films. In 1975, Falk debuted as a director with a movie novella Aktorka, part of a series called Obrazki z ˝ycia (Pictures From Life). Part of ‘70s Poland’s “cinema of moral unrest,” Falk is best known for two satirical social comedies Wodzirej (Top Dog, 1978) and Bohater Roku (Hero of the Year, 1987).

Producers: Janusz Morgenstern, Pawel Mossakowski, Wlodzimierz Nideraus, Andrzej Serdiukow Screenwriter: Grzegorz Loszweski Cinematographer: Bartek Prokopowicz Editor: Krzysztof Szpetmanski Music: Bartlomiej Gliniak Cast: Andrzej Chyra,Kinga Preis, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Marian Opania, Jan Frycz, Grzegorz Wojdan