Eva wants to sleep

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Movie
German title Eva wants to sleep
Original title Ewa chce spać
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1958
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Tadeusz Chmielewski
script Tadeusz Chmielewski
Andrzej Czekalski
music Henryk Czyż
camera Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz
cut Janina Niedźwiecka
occupation

Eva wants to sleep (Original Ewa chce spać ) is a Polish feature film from 1958 .

action

Ewa Bonecka is a naive young girl from the provinces. She comes to a big city to go to school. She only has the address of the boarding school and its doors are locked. Now an odyssey begins for the young girl. She is looking for a place to sleep and the policeman Piotr is supposed to help her. Together they experience the most absurd things in an unreal city. They come to night bars, meet police officers who make common cause with crooks. She gets to know a university that offers training in street robbery and a police officer who plays the flute on his rubber truncheon.

background

The absurd film comedy is the directorial debut of Tadeusz Chmielewski, who in the following years became one of the most popular comedy directors in Poland. The film is also the film debut of 17-year-old Barbara Kwiatkowska, who was selected in a casting competition with over 1000 Polish girls.

Reviews

“A brilliant rogue comedy in which a country girl, unsuspecting, gets caught between gangsters and police. With cheerful, subdued social criticism, a playful and punchy counterpart to British smirk films such as the ' Ladykillers ' "

"The themes are the same as in other internationally acclaimed Polish films: failure of the state, housing shortages, gang violence, alcoholism, prostitution."

Awards

The film won the top prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1958 .

The film was awarded the "Predicate particularly valuable" by the German film evaluation "FBW".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. NEW IN GERMANY: Eva wants to sleep (Poland). In: Spiegel Online . tape June 23 , 1963 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 6, 2019]).