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Top 10 Billed Cast

Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski

Andrzej Leszczyc

Elżbieta Czyżewska
Elżbieta Czyżewska

Teresa / Barbara / Leszczyc's wife

Tadeusz Minc
Tadeusz Minc

Jacek Szczęk
Jacek Szczęk

Mundek

Andrzej Żarnecki
Andrzej Żarnecki

Raymond

Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski
Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski

Man in the phone booth (uncredited)

Czesław Piaskowski
Czesław Piaskowski

Resistance member picking up bottles (uncredited)

Marek Piwowski
Marek Piwowski

Man at the draft board (uncredited)

Leon Niemczyk
Leon Niemczyk

Radio speaker (voice) (uncredited)

Janusz Kłosiński
Janusz Kłosiński

Resistance member picking up bottles (voice) (uncredited)

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    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center

  • Release Date

    1965-11-18

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    Polski