Snake Skin at Teatr Narodowy

The year 1955. The young Polish director Konrad Swinarski joins the world-famous Berliner Ensemble theatre as a trainee. He becomes a witness to a destructive conflict between two women closely related to the founder of the theatre, Bertolt Brecht. He observes Ruth Berlau's dramatic struggle with the "first wife" – Helene Weigel: for attention, recognition, memory and power. He learns about the moving stories of women who contribute to the legend of the master and the great institution called "Brecht".