Disturbing and beautiful at the same time

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2019)

A beautiful and a disturbing movie in many ways. The beauty of human love and art, and the ugliness of Communism are interspersed.
The doomed love-affair has some of the aspects of La La Land, but instead of the nonsense of tinsel-town keeping the lovers apart, it is the damnation of Communism that dooms them. Damnation is an applicable term to use because a destroyed church plays an important counter-point to the Communist world.
Zula, the female lead, is a femme fatale who leads Wiktor, the male lead, to destruction in several ways. Near the end of the movie Wiktor's hands are crushed by the Communists (remember, he's a pianist) and at the very end, Zula leads Wiktor into a double suicide (or is it?).
The question in my mind is why is Zula such a destructive and self-destructive person? I think the answer is that she is the true product of the Communist system, a fatally disturbed system produces fatally disturbed people.