A Lonely Woman

{{Short description|1987 film by Agnieszka Holland}}

A Lonely Woman ({{langx|pl|Kobieta samotna}}) (also known as A Woman Alone) is a 1981 Polish drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland.

The film is a political drama about middle-aged Irena (played by Maria Chwalibóg) who lives alone on the outskirts of Wrocław. Because of the film's social criticism it was banned in Poland and did not have a public release for six years.{{cite book|author1=Charles Ford|author2=Robert Hammond|title=Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiYkCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195|date=7 May 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0803-7|page=195}}