LEPROSY [1971]
year:
- 1971
release date:
- 2 XII 1971
runtime:
- 79 min
directed by:
- Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki
written by:
- Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
director of photography:
- Antoni Nurzyński
cast:
- Zygmunt Malanowicz [Stanisław Czermień], Anna Górska [Elżbieta], Elżbieta Kępińska [Krystyna], Henryk Bąk [Sitko], Henryk Hunko [Kunz], Bolesław Idziak [Cpt. Rzeszot], Janusz Kłosiński [Józek, a caretaker in the halls], Roman Kłosowski [Maks, a taxi driver], Ryszard Kotys [Lt. Strzałka], Jerzy Matałowski [Witek Czermień], Zdzisław Maklakiewicz [Tuś], Witold Pyrkosz [Czesiek Matusiak]
edited by:
- Roman Kolski
music by:
- Tomasz Stańko
production design:
- Jerzy Groszang
produced by:
- Zespół Filmowy „Wektor”
executive producer:
- Grzegorz Woźniak
awards:
-
• 1st International Meeting of Cinema "Youth on the Screen" Koszalin 1973: Jury Mention for Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, best performance award for Zygmunt Malanowicz
About the film
A pessimistic, gloomy study of the criminal milieu, combining para-documentary observations with a fast-paced crime story; filled with powerful scenes and clear-cut criminal characters.
Stanisław Czermień, an ex-convict, is stopped by the police in connection with the rape and murder of a young girl. An airtight alibi ensures his freedom, but he realises that his brother, Witek, who has no criminal record, is involved in the crime. Using his knowledge of the criminal milieu, Czermień conducts a private investigation and traces a gang of human traffickers − led by Matusiak and Kunz.
In a den, he finds Witek and Elżbieta, a juvenile who has run away from home. Searching for his fugitive brother, he visits a man named Sitko, who is a customer of Kunz. The man gives him the address of the contact. Hidden in the gang’s suburban hideout, where orgies were organised, Czermień discovers that Witek brings young girls there and Elżbieta is to be the next one. Terrorising the bandits, he rescues his brother and the girl, but Witek rejects his suggestion to go to the police and escapes, leaving Stanisław alone with the bandits.
Jan Słodowski, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
