Polowanie na muchy, 1969, 108 min.
Director | Andrzej Wajda | |
Screenplay | Janusz Glowacki | |
Cinematography | Zygmunt Samosiuk | |
Music | Andrzej Korzynski | |
Art Direction | Teresa Barska |
Irena | Malgorzata Braunek | |
Wlodek | Zygmunt Malanowicz | |
Wlodek’s wife, Hanka | Ewa Skarzanka | |
Wlodek’s mother-in-law | Hanna Skarzanka | |
Wlodek’s father-in-law | Jozef Pieracki | |
“Cataway” | Daniel Olbrychski |
One of the key films of the Polish film renaissance, this satiric comedy explores the seeming world of emancipated women and emasculated men in Communist Poland. A librarian shares his life and home with his domineering wife. He has an affair with a beautiful intellectual, who wears fly-shaped glasses. She tries to become the woman behind the great artist. It’s a film dedicated to the women of Poland, even as it critiques the relations between the sexes.