The last day of summer

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Movie
German title The last day of summer
Original title Ostatni dzień lata
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1958
length 66 minutes
Rod
Director Tadeusz Konwicki
script Tadeusz Konwicki
production Film studio Kadr
camera Jan Laskowski
cut Wieslawa Otocka
occupation

The Last Day of Summer is a Polish feature film from 1958.

action

A lonely Baltic Sea beach . A woman bathes in the sun. A young man is watching them. Nobody else is on this beach. The idyll is only disturbed by flying fighter planes. She is a few years older than the young man and feels disturbed by him. When the young man runs out into the open sea and can no longer be seen from a distance, she jumps into the water and saves him. The young man had forgotten that he cannot swim. They are slowly getting closer now. They grill fish together and protect themselves from a brief rain shower. After a kiss there is a cut . In the next scene they are together. She falls asleep and he leaves her. When she wakes up to find that he's gone, she looks for him on the beach. She goes into the water and disappears in the floods.

background

The film is an experimental film shot in black and white that almost looks like a silent film . The young people are still shaped by memories of the war and do not yet seem to find their way in the new communist Poland. The military planes that fly over and over the beach bring back memories of the Second World War and the lonely beach symbolizes peace.

The film was made by a group of friends using an old reporter camera. There were only five film team members in total. The film is considered the first Polish auteur film.

Reviews

  • Kabeleins.de (Filmlexikon): The directing debut of the Polish writer Konwicki has a lot of parable poetry and an eye for the subtlety of human encounters in its consequent austerity - he only plays on the beach .

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