As ever, the social consequences Pinochet's are secured through the use of massive repression. the rale 1970s the regime beame concerned about their in ternational image. In 1978 and 1979 an improvement in the human rights situation was recorded.
Subsequently, the regime has returned to its old ways with a vengeance Thus the activities of plain IF ZANUSSI'S film The Constant Factor had been shown two years ago, it might have seemed more relevant. But after a year of virtually uninterrupted political revolution in Poland, the film's concerns are not very grippConstant Factor is about Witold, an ingenuous young man who manages to retain his personal integrity and 'inner peace' by resisting the petty corruption surrounding him at work and in the hospital where his mother is dying.
His job as a skilled electrician takes him to the west and to India, where he is shocked to find his boss and his co-workers fiddling. As he condemnș their dishonest practices, he becomes more and more isolated. He has the opportunity to expose his to higher authorities, transcends these vengeful feelings destroys the He is finally framed for allegedly smuggling illegal currency when he is about to fulfil his life-long ambition to climb the Himalayas, which had killed his father many years