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Bad Luck (1960 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Bad Luck' is a 1960 Polish Tragicomedy film directed by Andrzej Munk. Niemitz, 2014: tragicomedyZelman, 2013: The tragi-comedy Bad Luck (Zezowate szczcie, 1960)..." The screenplay is based on Jerzy Stawiskis novel 'Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk' (1959).Niemitz, 2014: Bad Luck (1960), based on Jerzy Stawiski's novel Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk (1959), like Man on the Tracks, is a retrospective on a life.Bren, 2012: Munk'sovertly comic Bad Luck, is adapted from Stawiski's 1959 novel, Sze wciele Jana Piszczyka (Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk), its title accurately suggesting the film's episodic line.
'Bad Luck' was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
'Bad Luck' reflects the episodic source material by novelist Jerzy Stawiski from which it is adapted. Jan Piszczyk is petty bourgeois Jew and son of a Warsaw tailor. The story opens when the middle-aged Piszczyk is laid off from a job, and bemoans his fate. He provides a retrospective on his life in a series of flashbacks, spanning the history of Poland from the rise of fasict anti-Semitism during the 1920s to the postwar Stalinist period. Piszczyk emerges as a political and social chameleon, willing to accommodate himself to any situation. His opportunism propels him repeatedly into ludicrous and pathetic failures.
Cast
* Bogumi Kobiela Jan Piszczyk
* Maria Ciesielska Basia
* Helena Dbrowska Wychwna
* Barbara Lass Jola Wrona-Wroska (as Barbara Kwiatkowska)
* Krystyna Karkowska Wrona-Wroska
* Barbara Poomska Zosia Jelonkowa
* Irena Staloczyk Irena Kropaczynska
* Tadeusz Bartosik Wasik
* Henryk Bak Director
* Mariusz Dmochowski UB Officer
* Aleksander Dzwonkowski Cezary Piszczyk
* Edward Dziewoski Jelonek
* Tadeusz Janczar Ens. Sawicki
* Stanisaw Jaworski Watchmaker
* Andrzej Krasicki Witold Kropaczyski
* Wojciech Lityski Young Jan Piszczyk
* Kazimierz Opaliski Prison Governor
* Jerzy Pichelski Maj. Wrona-Wronski
* Adam Pawlikowski Ens. Osewski
* Witold Sadowy soldier pretending to be Adolf Hitler
* Wojciech Siemion Jzef Kacperski
* Maria Kaniewska - Anastazja Makulec
* Jan Tadeusz Stanisawski Chief Scout
* Tadeusz Waczkowski Manager Kozienicki
Continuation
In 1988, the film 'Citizen Piszczyk' was made, directed by Andrzej Kotkowski. Jerzy Stuhr played the main role.
References
Sources
*Niemitz, Dorota. 2014. 'The legacy of postwar Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk.' World Socialist Web Site. 13 October, 2014. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/13/munk-o13.html Retrieved 08 July, 2022.
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