NOBODY'S CALLING [1960]
year:
- 1960
release date:
- 31 X 1960
runtime:
- 86 min
directed by:
- Kazimierz Kutz
written by:
- Józef Hen based on his own novel
director of photography:
- Jerzy Wójcik
cast:
- Zofia Marcinkowska [Lucyna], Henryk Boukołowski [Bożek, Bohdan Nieczuja], Barbara Krafftówna [Niura], Halina Mikołajska [Olga Stareńska], Aleksander Fogiel [The Mayor, a tramp], Ryszard Pietruski [Zygmunt], Laura Dębicka [Alicja, Lucyna’s siter], Irena Jaglarzowa [Niura’s mother], Andrzej Zamięcki [Stefek]
edited by:
- Irena Choryńska
music by:
- Wojciech Kilar
production design:
- Jarosław Świtoniak
produced by:
- Studio Filmowe „Kadr”
executive producer:
- Tadeusz Karwański
About the film
One of the most visually stunning Polish films. Stylised black-and-white cinematography captures the state of the soul of a young couple completely lost in their new reality, and the moon-like landscape of a town populated by accidental people.
At the end of the war, trains full of people who plan to start a new life come to the Western Lands. Transports with displaced persons, Bożek among them, come to Zielno. Bożek’s trip was the result of his desire to break out of the underground resistance movement and to escape punishment for disobeying an order. "I did not kill the red [communist]", he says to himself. Bożek arranges a room and takes a job at a winery.
He meets Lucyna and falls for her, but fear of judgment prevents any sincerity on his part. The boy struggles with himself, trying to keep his love for Lucyna in check by fleeting relationships with Niura and Olga. One day he sees Zygmunt − a friend from the organisation − in the town. He encourages Bożek to escape to the countryside. But after reconsidering his situation, he takes the risk of returning to Lucyna.
Jan Słodowski, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
