365 Days is a 2020 Polish drama built around a kidnapping that turns into a year-long, high-stakes test of two very different lives colliding.
What is 365 Days about?
After his father is killed, Massimo Torricelli takes charge of a Sicilian crime family, stepping into a role he never expected to fill so soon. Across the sea in Warsaw, Laura works as a sales director at a luxury hotel, professionally accomplished but privately restless in a relationship that has run out of spark. A getaway to Sicily with her boyfriend Martin and a group of friends is meant to be a last attempt to repair things, but it puts her directly in Massimo's path. He takes her captive and sets a single condition: three hundred and sixty-five days to fall in love with him. What follows is a tense standoff between control and desire, playing out against the backdrop of Sicily's coastline and the world Massimo runs.
About the cast
Michele Morrone plays Massimo Torricelli opposite Anna Maria Sieklucka as Laura, with Bronisław Wrocławski, Otar Saralidze, Magdalena Lamparska, Natasza Urbańska, Grażyna Szapołowska and Tomasz Stockinger in supporting roles. Directors Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes shape the film around the central pairing, keeping the story's tension focused on the two leads even as it moves between Warsaw and Sicily.
Context & significance
Released in 2020, 365 Days is adapted from a Polish novel and became one of the most talked-about romance releases of its year, sparking wide debate over its depiction of captivity dressed as romance. That conversation has followed the film into every market it has reached, and it is worth knowing going in: this is a story that deliberately blurs the line between danger and desire rather than resolving it. Running 116 minutes, the film moves briskly between its Sicilian crime-family backdrop and its central relationship, and it later grew into a full trilogy that carried the same two leads through further chapters.
Watching 365 Days on Ktime
365 Days is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, watchable with a free account login. The film's page is open to read without signing in, and creating an account is what unlocks playback for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.