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6.4 | 1965-11-18 | Drama

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

Featured Crew

Jerzy Skolimowski Art Direction
Witold Mickiewicz Director of Photography
Halina Gronek Editor
Jan Czerwiński Sound
Jerzy Skolimowski Director
Krzysztof Sadowski Original Music Composer
Jerzy Skolimowski Screenplay
Józef Siwek Assistant Production Manager
Jerzy Rybicki Sound Assistant
Tadeusz Palczynski Sound Assistant

Cast

Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski
Andrzej Leszczyc
Elżbieta Czyżewska
Elżbieta Czyżewska
Teresa / Barbara / Leszczyc's wife
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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