The last day of summer
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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 |
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Director | Tadeusz Konwicki |
script | Tadeusz Konwicki |
production | Film studio Kadr |
camera | Jan Laskowski |
cut | Wieslawa Otocka |
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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 .
Web links
- The last summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)