Directed by:
Andrzej WajdaScreenplay:
Janusz GłowackiCinematography:
Zygmunt SamosiukComposer:
Andrzej KorzyńskiCast:
Zygmunt Malanowicz, Małgorzata Braunek, Hanna Skarzanka, Ewa Skarżanka, Józef Pieracki, Daniel Olbrychski, Irena Dziedzic, Leszek Drogosz, Jacek Fedorowicz (more)Plots(1)
Thirty-something Włodek, a would-be graduate of Russian language and literature and a modest bookshop employee, leads a boring, flat life with his wife Hanka, his son and in-laws. He lacks any professional ambitions and interests. Włodek feels completely dominated by his wife and his mother-in-law. One day, on the pretext of buying cigarettes he leaves the house with the intention of never coming back. By chance he meets Polish Studies student Irena and gets involved in an affair with her. Irena is determined to make him the man of her dreams. Almost against his will, she tries to promote him as a translator and even writer, fortune's darling and the favourite of Warsaw society. But her efforts are in vain. (Warsaw Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Poland
Best movies:
Knife in the Water (1962)
Lekcja martwego języka (1979)
The Dancing Hawk (1977)
Małgorzata Braunek
Poland
Best movies:
Potop (1974)
Matthew's Days (1967)
Landscape After Battle (1970)
Hanna Skarzanka
Russian Empire
Best movies:
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Matthew's Days (1967)
The Law and the Fist (1966)
Ewa Skarżanka
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Józef Pieracki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Noose (1957)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Daniel Olbrychski
Poland
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
The Promised Land (1974)
Potop (1974)
Irena Dziedzic
Poland
Best movies:
Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Leszek Drogosz
Poland
Best movies:
Landscape After Battle (1970)
Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Jacek Fedorowicz
Poland
Best movies:
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Polowanie na muchy (1969)
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Marek Grechuta
Poland
Best movies:
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Irena Laskowska
Poland
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Gangsterzy i filantropi (1962)
Julia Bratna
Best movies:
Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Leon Bukowiecki
Poland
Best movies:
Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Witold Dederko
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
Lekcja martwego języka (1979)
The Pearl in the Crown (1971)
Stefan Friedmann
Poland
Best movies:
Landscape After Battle (1970)
Westerplatte Resists (1967)
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Antonina Girycz
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Interrogation (1982)
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Polowanie na muchy (1969)
Jerzy Kaczmarek
Poland
Best movies:
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
The Ashes (1965)
Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
Jerzy Karaszkiewicz
Poland
Best movies:
The Master and Margarita (1988) (series)
With Fire and Sword (1999)
Miś (1980)
Andrzej Krasicki
Poland
Tomasz Lengren
Poland
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
Interrogation (1982)
Eroica (1957)