Just a couple of weeks ago I was talking about how Danes go back home when things aren’t working out on the U.S./U.K. side of the business – I guess that’s sort of the predicament that Pawel Pawlikowski has found himself in. Pawlikowski has been involved with a couple of false starts and is probably struggling to get more money out of a Miramax deal for his pic called Young Stalin. He hasn’t directed a picture since My Summer of Love, but it appears as if his next pic will be a Polish-British co-production which would shoot this coming summer.
Scripted by Cezary Harasimowicz and Pawlikowski, Sister of Mercy this is about the moral dilemma of a young nun sought after by a Secret Service agent for co-operation under the communist regime in 1968 Poland. He reveals her Jewish descent and makes her question her own identity, while their relationship gets more complicated.
