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Director:
Andrzej Munk
Writers:
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (novel)
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (screenplay)
Release Date:
4 April 1960 (Poland) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
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A Hapless Moral Imbecile For All Seasons more (3 total)

Cast

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Bogumil Kobiela ... Jan Piszczyk
Maria Ciesielska ... Basia
Helena Dabrowska ... Wychówna
Barbara Lass ... Jola Wrona-Wronska (as Barbara Kwiatkowska)
Krystyna Karkowska ... Wrona-Wronska
Barbara Polomska ... Zosia Jelonkowa
Irena Stalonczyk ... Irena Kropaczynska
Tadeusz Bartosik ... Wasik
Henryk Bak ... Director
Mariusz Dmochowski ... UB Officer
Aleksander Dzwonkowski ... Cezary Piszczyk
Edward Dziewonski ... Jelonek
Tadeusz Janczar ... Ens. Sawicki
Stanislaw Jaworski ... Watchmaker
Andrzej Krasicki ... Witold Kropaczynski
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Also Known As:
Bad Luck
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Runtime:
92 min | Argentina:95 min | Poland:158 min
Country:
Poland
Language:
Polish
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Finland:S
Filming Locations:
Agrykola, Royal Lazienki Park, Warsaw, Poland more
Company:
Polski State Film more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
A Hapless Moral Imbecile For All Seasons, 29 April 2007
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Author: heliotropetwo from United States

If we are lucky in our youth we will meet someone whose tale of woe, of rotten luck, of good work gone for nothing reveals itself to be a consequence of self-absorbed indifference to the true lives of others.

Piszczyk tells his own story. At the outset we know he is in prison and wants to stay there. For the 108 minutes (in the Polart DVD) of Munk's farce, Piszczyk, a Harry Langdon character for all Munk's chaplinesquerie, unwittingly persuades us his bad luck is a direct consequence of his moral cowardice. From his childhood in prewar, protofascist Poland through middle age in Stalinist Poland, he hasn't a clue beyond his own immediate safety and gratification.

Piszczyk stumbles through the worst atrocities of European history without compassion, encountering the Good and the Bad, the Noble and the Ignoble, oblivious to consequence, ready to be used indiscriminately by anyone who offers him any form of reward. The sooner in life we meet such people the better our chances of escaping their fate.

Most importantly, Munk makes us laugh at him, monster though he is.

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