Director: Adrian Panek
Grief and procedure collide on a windswept Polish coastline in Colors of Evil: Red, Adrian Panek's 2024 crime drama about an unlikely partnership formed in the wake of tragedy.
What is Colors of Evil: Red about?
After a young woman's body washes ashore in the Tricity region, the case falls to a prosecutor whose professional detachment starts to crack the deeper he digs. The victim's mother, unwilling to accept the official version of events, inserts herself into the investigation, and the two form a tense, reluctant alliance built on shared desperation rather than trust. Adrian Panek uses the coastal setting as more than scenery, letting the fog and grey water mirror the murkiness of a town that seems to be protecting secrets on multiple levels. As leads multiply and contradict each other, the film resists easy answers, instead tracing how personal loss reshapes a person's willingness to bend rules meant to keep them at a professional distance from the case.
Cast & crew
Jakub Gierszał plays the prosecutor with a controlled intensity that gradually gives way to obsession, while Maja Ostaszewska brings raw, unvarnished grief to the mother whose persistence drives much of the plot forward. Zofia Jastrzębska and the supporting ensemble fill out a community that feels lived-in rather than merely functional.
Context & significance
Adrian Panek, known for tightly wound genre work, builds the film around procedural detail without losing sight of the emotional core, positioning it within a wave of recent Polish crime dramas that favor atmosphere and character over shock value.
Where & how to watch
Colors of Evil: Red streams on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles, offered as part of a catalog built for Persian-speaking audiences with a fully Farsi interface. This page is free to read; watching the film requires a K-Time account login.