Identification Marks: None (2017)

  • NR
  • 03/23/2017 (AT)
  • Drama
  • 1h 11m

Overview

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

Jerzy Skolimowski

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Jerzy Skolimowski's headshot

Jerzy Skolimowski

Andrzej Leszczyc
Elżbieta Czyżewska's headshot

Elżbieta Czyżewska

Teresa / Barbara / Leszczyc's wife
Tadeusz Minc's headshot

Tadeusz Minc

Jacek Szczęk's headshot

Jacek Szczęk

Mundek
Andrzej Żarnecki's headshot

Andrzej Żarnecki

Raymond
Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski's headshot

Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski

Man in the phone booth (uncredited)
Czesław Piaskowski's headshot

Czesław Piaskowski

Resistance member picking up bottles (uncredited)
Marek Piwowski's headshot

Marek Piwowski

Man at the draft board (uncredited)

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