''The Master'' ( pl, Mistrz) is a 2005 Polish magical-realist film directed by

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and starring

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Jacek Braciak Jacek Braciak (born 12 May 1968) is a Polish film and theater actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1991. He received the Polish Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for '' Edi'' and ''Rose''. Selected filmography * '' Edi'' (2002 ...

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and

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. It tells the tale of an alcoholic

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performer and

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who is fired from a circus for releasing all the animals in a small Polish town. He is joined by an

accordionist Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed i ...

, a

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and a

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as they create a traveling show featuring

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and other conjuring tricks.

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* Polish drama films 2000s Polish-language films 2005 drama films 2005 films {{Poland-film-stub