A nutcase's day

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Movie
German title A nutcase's day
Original title Dzień świra
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 2002
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Marek Koterski
script Marek Koterski
music Jerzy Satanowski
camera Piotr Szczepański
cut Ewa Smal
occupation

The Day of a Spinner ( Dzień świra ) is a Polish comedy film directed by Marek Koterski .

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The film shows a day in the life of the 49-year-old Polish teacher and obsessive-compulsive neurotic Adaś Miauczyński ( Marek Kondrat ). A recurring topic is a poem that he wants to write, but is repeatedly distracted from it by other people.

The film starts in the morning while Adaś is still in bed. A first-person narrator explains his thoughts; he fears getting up every day because he doesn't know what to do with the day. He lives in a block , and after getting up he notices various noises that he tries to eliminate. Three men are working with a jackhammer, but they stop working completely when he tells them to: something that is not right for him either. A showering neighbor listens to Chopin too loudly , a neighbor does martial arts exercises , and a third mows the lawn with a brushcutter .

Almost everything Adaś does is obsessive. He always counts how often or for how long he does something, preferably up to seven. He stirs his coffee seven times, drinks seven sips of water, washes his face seven times, etc. He also checks several times that he has properly locked his apartment and that all gas and water taps are properly closed.

Prior to his class he recites Stepy Akermańskie of Adam Mickiewicz and it goes all the way up. Disturbances in the class cause him to leave class. He goes to his mother to tell her about his problems. But she cannot understand them and answers his questions and statements with general sentences and the request that he eat his soup. After all, he is sitting with a psychoanalyst who cannot help either.

When visiting his son, he meets his ex-wife, with whom he immediately argues. His son appears to be intimidated and endowed with low intelligence. Finally he fled to the Baltic Sea. When taking the train there, he changes compartments several times because the other passengers annoy him in different ways. Even on the apparently empty Baltic Sea beach, however, he cannot find peace.

He keeps dreaming of his first love. When she finally appears as the perfect (dream) woman, exactly according to his ideas, he rejects her because she would not fit into his life.

The film ends with fantasy images of Adaś while masturbating .

Reviews

filmweb.pl writes that Adaś is not a madman, but a very sensitive person. Each of us is that crazy. Marek Kondrat excellently plays a suicidal loser who is annoyed with life. Kondrat also manages to make lengthy scenes and the inevitable repetition of certain patterns attractive and entertaining for the viewer.

Awards

The film won the 2003 Polish Film Awards for Best Screenplay ( Marek Koterski ) and Best Male Leading Role ( Marek Kondrat ). In 2003 the film was also nominated in the categories of best film, best director ( Marek Koterski ), best costumes ( Ewa Krauze ), best music ( Jerzy Satanowski ), best editing ( Ewa Smal ) and best female supporting actress ( Janina Traczykówna ).

The film was awarded the Złota Kaczka ( Golden Duck ) award twice. In 2003 Marek Kondrat received it for his role as Adaś. For the best sketch when Adaś tried to teach his son English in 2007.

At the Polish Film Festival Gdynia ( Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych ) in 2002, the film was awarded the special prize of the jury, Marek Kondrat for the best male leading role and Maria Chilarecka for the best sound.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Filmweb.pl, Świr taki jak my , accessed on May 17, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Filmpolski.pl, Dzień świra , accessed on June 4, 2011
  3. ↑ Filmpolski.pl, Dzień świra - Nagrody , accessed on June 4, 2011