LOST AFFECTIONS [1957]
year:
- 1957
release date:
- 21 X 1957
runtime:
- 75 min
directed by:
- Jerzy Zarzycki
written by:
- Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa, Jerzy Zarzycki, Julian Dziedzina based on the short story
director of photography:
- Antoni Wójtowicz
cast:
- Maria Klejdysz [Zofia Stańczakowa], Andrzej Jurczak [Adam Stańczak], Władysław Woźnik [a foreman Kazimierz Gołębiowski], Ewa Stojowska [a neighbor of Stańczakowa with a broken alarm clock], Wiktor Nanowski [Stańczak, Zofia’s ex-husband], Wiktor Sadecki [Józef Kowalski], Elżbieta Kalinowska [Maria Gołębiowska], Marian Jastrzębski [a driver], Kazimierz Witkiewicz [a reporter], Józef Pieracki [school headmaster]
edited by:
- Janina Niedźwiecka
music by:
- Stanisław Wisłocki
production design:
- Jan Grandys
produced by:
- Zespół Filmowy „Syrena”
executive producer:
- Wiesław Mincer
awards:
-
- Warsaw Mermaid 1958 for Jerzy Zarzycki
About the film
A black social drama, drawing upon the poetics and themes of Italian neo-realism. The film connects the black documentary series from Warsaw’s WFD and literature in the same vain as the unforgettable, Poem for Adults, by Adam Ważyk (August 1955).
A day in the life of a worker in Nowa Huta; a woman, who is a work leader, is abandoned by her husband and chooses the career of a union activist. Stańczakowa does not realise how much of a burden it is for her three children − left with practically no family life. The eldest son, Adam, helps at home, but the routine of everyday life causes him to rebel, ending in a confrontation with his mother and his escape from home. Adam gets involved with a gang of Nowa Huta hooligans, with whom, after drinking several bottles of fruit wine, he provokes a scene on the tram that ends with the driver being beaten up.
Jan Słodowski, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
