Angelus

The film is rooted in a true, little-known episode from the history of Silesia—the existence of the Janowski occult community, one of the most extraordinary spiritual phenomena of the 20th century. Although the group operated from the 1930s through the first two decades after the war, its true nature was carefully obscured by the authorities of the time. What entered the collective consciousness was primarily the art of its members—paintings that gained international recognition and effectively concealed what was the real foundation of their activity: esoteric practices, alchemical experiments, and theosophical doctrines. The film does not reconstruct those events documentary-style but weaves a fictional story inspired by this astonishing phenomenon. The action takes place in the early 1950s, when the group’s spiritual legacy still endures in secret, and echoes of its ancient teachings continue to resonate in the lives of the protagonists. Two flashbacks to 1939 reveal the community’s origins and lend the whole narrative a mysterious, almost mythological dimension.