Kamila Sakowicz (Magdalena Boczarska), an attractive woman, gets involved in a love affair with an undercover government agent Roman Rożek (Robert Więckiewicz). He soon entangles her in a plot to spy on a famous writer Adam Warczewski (Andrzej Seweryn), with whom she ends up falling deeply, genuinely in love.
Jan Kidawa-Błoński drew inspiration for Little Rose from the German film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others (or: Das Leben der Anderen). The story is inspired by actual events, in particular the life story of Paweł Jasienica and his second marriage with Zofia O'Bretenny, who after years of marriage turned out to be an undercover agent reporting on him to SB - the internal security service. The dangerous emotional game between an acclaimed writer, his beautiful young wife and her lover, is set in the turbulent 1960s.
Kamila Sakowicz (Magdalena Boczarska), an attractive woman, gets involved in a love affair with Roman Rożek (Robert Więckiewicz). They are overcome by a genuine feeling, however, the girl is not aware that her partner is a SB undercover security service agent. One day Roman invites her to his apartment. After a few passionate nights, he asks the woman for a favour: to get to know a famous writer, Adam Warczewski (Andrzej Seweryn) and prepare reports on his views and personal contacts. Kamila, who is in love with Roman and does not want to disappoint him, agrees to invigilate Warczewski and signs a statement of collaboration with the SB security service. For her task, Kamila chooses the pseudonym of "Różyczka", meaning "a little rose". It does not take long for the beautiful woman to attract the writer's attention. Warczewski soon invites her to his house and offers up the classics of Polish literature in exile. The writer and the young woman become lovers. As time passes, Kamila moves in with Warczewski and gets on well with his daughter. Caught by the writer late at night while preparing the report on his typewriter, she lies and claims that she is working on her own attempts at writing.
In spite of the difference in age, which arouses indignation among the writer's circle of friends, educational background and status, the intellectual marries the attractive "girl out of nowhere". Blinded by his feelings, he does not even suspect that the controversial relation may not be a question of circumstance. He is not aware that two are bound not only by intense passion but by a dangerous plot as well. Engaged in an immoral relationship with the agent, the woman provides the agent with information meant to discredit the writer in the eyes of the public. The erotic fascination with her lover gradually develops into a deeper emotional bond; however, the woman realizes she is just a tool in a plot planned by SB security service.
Meanwhile, Rożek suffers from jealousy. He feels that Kamila is slipping through his fingers: she is still an excellent source of information but her commitment to their relationship is weakening. Over Christmas, Warczewski proposes to Kamila. The astonished girl returns the ring immediately. When, on the way home from the New Year's Eve party, Warczewski breaks a leg, Rożek appears unexpectedly at the writer's house and threatens Kamila and her lover. At the beginning of 1968, during a meeting of writers, Warczewski supports a protest against curtailing the performance of Dziady / Forefather's Eve by the socialist authorities. Kamila takes the minutes of the meeting and the text of the adopted resolution is immediately received by Rożek. The same day, the girl turns in a liaison officer who used to deliver documents from Warsaw to Radio Free Europe, including politically engaged columns by Warczewski. However, this is the last task which Kamila performs by order of the SB security service. She attaches her resignation from the security service to the resolution.
As a reason for her resignation, she states her marriage with the writer - a man who fell in love with her unconditionally. Rożek is lost in his desperation. During a subsequent militia repressive action organized at the University of Warsaw on March 8, 1968, Rożek pulls Warczewski into a gate and shouts out that Kamila is a security service informer. A few days later, during a socialist party rally at the Congress Hall, Władysław Gomułka pronounces Warczewski as "an antisocialist element" and blames him for inspiring recent events.
The story is inspired by actual events (including the life story of Paweł Jasienica and his second marriage with Zofia O'Bretenny, who after years of marriage turned out to be an undercover agent reporting on him to SB - the internal security service).
Awards for Little Rose:
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Jan Kidawa-Błoński - Grand Prix ("The Golden Lions" for the best film)
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Włodzimierz Niderhaus - Grand Prix ("The Golden Lions" for the producer of the best film)
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Wiesław Znyk - awarded for sound
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Joanna Napieralska - awarded for sound
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Magdalena Boczarska - awarded for performance of an actress in a leading role
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Jan Kidawa-Błoński - "Złoty Klakier" / "Golden Claqueur", Radio Gdańsk Award for the director of the audience favourite
- 2010 (Gdynia Polish Film Festival) Włodzimierz Niderhaus - "Złoty Kangur" / "Golden Kangaroo", awarded by Australian film distributors
- 2010 (Moscow Film Festival) Jan Kidawa-Błoński - "Silver George" Award for Best Director