THIS LOVE MUST BE KILLED [1972]
year:
- 1972
release date:
- 10 XII 1972
runtime:
- 92 min
directed by:
- Janusz Morgenstern
written by:
- Janusz Głowacki
director of photography:
- Zygmunt Samosiuk
cast:
- Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak [Magda], Andrzej Malec [Andrzej], Władysław Kowalski [a doctor], Barbara Wrzesińska [boss’s wife], Alicja Jachiewicz [Dzidzia], Jan Englert [a garage owner], Janusz Bylczyński [Magda’s father], Tomasz Lengren [Staszek, Andrzej’s roommate], Jan Himilsbach [a caretaker on the construction site], Ryszard Pracz [Rysio], Andrzej Dobosz [a man summoned to the employment avoidance committee], Ewa Ziętek [a nurse], Bożena Dykiel [a nurse]
edited by:
- Barbara Kosidowska
music by:
- Bohdan Mazurek
production design:
- Andrzej Płocki
produced by:
- Studio Filmowe „Iluzjon”
executive producer:
- Jerzy Buchwald
awards:
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• I Międzynarodowe Spotkania Filmowe „Młodzież na ekranie” Koszalin 1973: Wyróżnienie Jury dla Janusza Morgensterna, nagroda aktorska dla Jadwigi Jankowskiej-Cieślak
• Lubusz Film Summer Łagów 1973: Grand Prix Golden Grape award for the best female performance in a leading role for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak and for best supporting actress for Barbara Wrzesińska
• Zbigniew Cybulski Award 1973 for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
• 1st International Meeting of Cinema "Youth on the Screen" Koszalin 1973: Special Jury Award for Janusz Morgenstern, best performance award for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
About the film
One of the most interesting Polish films devoted to the problems of youth. An ironic portrait of young people’s consumerist approach to life as they clumsily enter adulthood.
Magda is still upset about the divorce of her parents; both she and Andrzej did not get enough credits on their university entrance exams. They love each other and want to start a life together. Magda takes a job as an orderly in a hospital, to gain preferential points on her next attempt to pass the exam for the Academy of Medicine. Andrzej, in order to quickly get the money to rent an apartment, takes a job in a private garage owned by Karol. He readily agrees to be the lover of the wife of his boss; he steals an icon from the apartment, and when he is caught and forced to compensate for the losses, he uses his and Magda’s savings. He explains to the shocked girl that he did it for their sake. Magda moves in with her father, who is dating a girl not much older than his daughter.
Jan Słodowski, Leksykon polskich filmów fabularnych, Warszawa 1996
