Tired of superficial relationships and of being pursued by women, a young doctor and jazz musician, meets an enigmatic young woman one night in Warsaw. They spend the night together and embark on a game of pretence, flirtation and emotional detachment. At dawn, she disappears for a moment and does not return, prompting the protagonist to set out on an obsessive search for her throughout the city.
Andrzej Wajda
One of the great masters of European cinema and a leading figure of the Polish Film School, he was born in 1926 and died in 2016. He studied painting in Kraków and film directing at the Łódź Film School. He made his debut with ‘A Generation’ (1955), the first instalment of his war trilogy alongside ‘Kanal (1957) and ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ (1958), which brought him international acclaim. In 1972, he visited Valladolid to receive a tribute from the Valladolid Film Festival, where in 1975 he won the Golden Spike for ‘The Promised Land’. His films reached Spain via Valladolid with other titles such as ‘Danton’ (1983), ‘The Ring with a Crowned Eagle’ (1993), ‘Miss Nobody’ (1996) and ‘Walesa: Man of Hope’, which closed the festival in 2013. His major awards include the Palme d’Or at Cannes for ‘Man of Iron’ (1981), four Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film (for ‘The Promised Land, ‘The Maids of Wilko’, ‘Man of Iron’ and ‘Katyn’), the Honorary Oscar in 2000 for his contribution to world cinema, the Honorary Golden Lion at Venice, the Honorary Golden Bear at Berlin and the Praemium Imperiale.
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DIRECTOR
Andrzej Wajda
SCREENPLAY
Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Krzysztof Winiewicz
EDITOR
Wiesława Otocka
SOUND
Leszek Wronko
MUSIC
Krzysztof Komeda
PRODUCTION
Stanisław Adler
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Zespół Filmowy Kadr
CAST
Krystyna Stypułkowska, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jędrusik, Roman Polański, Teresa Szmigielówna, Andrzej Nowakowski
