Special characteristics: none (1965)

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Movie
German title Special features: none
Original title Rysopis
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1965
length 73 minutes
Rod
Director Jerzy Skolimowski
script Jerzy Skolimowski
music Krzysztof Sadowski
camera Witold Mickiewicz
cut Halina Szalinska
occupation

Special features: none (original title: Rysopis ) is a Polish black-and-white film from 1965 by Jerzy Skolimowski . The director had also written the script and also played the male lead. Elżbieta Czyżewska can be seen in the female lead . The film came to the cinema for the first time on November 18, 1965 in Poland. In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on July 28, 1969 on ZDF . The work described here has nothing in common with the DEFA film of the same name from 1956.

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Andrzej has lived with the decorator Theresa in a more than shabby apartment for years. While the girl does a regular job, the young man remains in absolute passivity. He cannot make up his mind to continue his studies at university, let alone graduate. Instead, Andrzej lets himself drift indecisively and aimlessly, making a living from his girlfriend's modest income. Although Andrzej was exempted from military service as a student, one day he was back in front of the draft committee . The latter considers him fit and gives him the draft order because of his discontinued studies .

In the last hours before his departure, Andrzej met different people; but all encounters remain random, inconsequential or episodic. This also applies to the last encounter with Theresa, which ends with a heated argument. Andrzej runs to the station and just barely catches the train that will take him to the barracks.

Reviews

The Protestant Film Observer summarizes his opinion as follows: “Debut film with strongly autobiographical features. [...] From numerous individual observations and seemingly coincidental events, the image of an indecisive, unadapted and evasive student emerges. Demanding, but also difficult to access film for discussion groups. "

The lexicon of international film comes to a similar assessment: “The last hours of a 24-year-old student before being drafted into the military - the log of a waiting period that does not record any major events, but in the sum of small observations the peculiarities of the hero and his milieu Making the environment tangible. Skolimowski's first full-length feature film is tinted autobiographically [...] and exactly describes the feelings and problems of the skeptical young generation in Poland in the 1960s. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 351/1969, pp. 346 to 347
  2. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 312