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Synopsis

The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center

Main Cast

Jerzy Skolimowski

Andrzej Leszczyc

Age : 86 | Popularity : 5%

Elżbieta Czyżewska

Teresa / Barbara / Leszczyc's wife

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Tadeusz Minc

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jacek Szczęk

Mundek

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Andrzej Żarnecki

Raymond

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski

Man in the phone booth (uncredited)

Age : 93 | Popularity : 3%

Czesław Piaskowski

Resistance member picking up bottles (uncredited)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Marek Piwowski

Man at the draft board (uncredited)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jerzy Skolimowski
Art	Art Direction	Jerzy Skolimowski
Camera	Director of Photography	Witold Mickiewicz
Editing	Editor	Halina Gronek
Sound	Sound	Jan Czerwiński
	Original Music Composer	Krzysztof Sadowski
	Sound Assistant	Jerzy Rybicki Tadeusz Palczynski
Production	Production Manager	Zbigniew Brejtkopf
	Assistant Production Manager	Józef Siwek
Writing	Screenplay	Jerzy Skolimowski
Department	Role	Name

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