Szamanka

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Szamanka

"She's a machine."

1996

1h 50m

6.1(64 votes)

Drama

Horror

Overview

Anthropology professor Michal develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp. The second is an enigmatic student he meets by chance at a railway station.

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44 members

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Bogusław Linda

Michał

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Iwona Petry

Włoszka

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Piotr Machalica

Anna's Father

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Paweł Burczyk

Marcin

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Stanisław Jaskułka

Lecturer of AGH

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Agnieszka Wagner

Anna

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Paweł Deląg

Jules

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Piotr Zelt

Michal's Friend

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Sebastian Konrad

Michal's Friend

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Joanna Benda

Michal's Collaborator

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Grzegorz Emanuel

Michal's Collaborator

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Marcin Dorociński

Student (uncredited)

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Grzegorz Lukawski

Michal's friend

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Artur Krajewski

Michal's brother's lover

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Piotr Zelt

Michal's friend

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Sebastian Konrad

Michal's friend

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Tomasz Piernasz-Strus

Wloszka's father company employee

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Witold Zaboklicki

Guest at party/Policeman in Mieszkowice

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Jolanta Grusznic

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Magdalena Homanowska

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Alicja Jachiewicz

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Halina Koman-Dobrowolska

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Wojciech Kowman

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Andrzej Nejman

Michal's friend

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Jacek Sobieszczański

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Zdzisław Wardejn

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Piotr Wawrzyńczak

Priest, Michal's brother

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Bartosz Żukowski

AGH's student

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Marcin Dorociński

Student on the street (uncredited)

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Mirosław Jękot

Guest at party (uncredited)

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Małgorzata Kalamat

Guest at party (uncredited)

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Piotr Krukowski

Guest at party (uncredited)

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Katarzyna Maternowska

Girl at party (uncredited)

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Piotr Mielnik

Friend of Michal (uncredited)

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Aleksandra Nieśpielak

Girl at party (uncredited)

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Sybilla Rostek

Girl at party (uncredited)

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Rafał Sawicki

Medicine student (uncredited)

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Tomasz Stockinger

German man with Hooker (uncredited)

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Zbigniew Suszyński

Guest at party (uncredited)

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Jan Heba

Medicine student (uncredited)

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Przemysław Tejkowski

Guest at party (uncredited)

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Małgorzata Werner

Nurse (uncredited)

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Jan Wieczorkowski

Student on the street (uncredited)

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Robert Żołędziewski

Medicine student (uncredited)

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