Camouflage

^director Krzysztof Zanussi
^screenplay Krzysztof Zanussi
^{director of photography} Edward Kłosiński
^music Wojciech Kilar
^with Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul, Mariusz Dmochowski
^{awards (selection)}   Golden Ibex for direction at the Teheran International Film Festival, 1981
 Grand Prix, Gdańsk Lions, prize for acting achievements for Zbigniew Zapasiewicz and Best Screenplay at the 4th Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk, 1977

KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI, ‘POSITIF’, 1981

‘Camouflage’ met with a very impulsive and direct reception. It provoked vehement emotions which to some degree overshadowed the subtlety of its message. Only now, when the emotions have subsided, the message of the film is being discovered and expounded.

RAFAŁ MARSZAŁEK, STAGNANT WATERS [KAMIEŃ W WODĘ], WARSZAWA 1980

‘Camouflage’ is not a morality play. The sum of small conformities, assuming the shape of a mathematical graph indicating a pretty big conformity remains here without an alternative. The types of behaviour represented by Old Cynic and Young Holy Willie reflect in fact their tactics rather than their attitudes. Docent infringes the values which he secretly continues to profess but whose dusting would not be worth his while; Master would like to be at once ‘noble and sly, valiant and cautious’(…). The content of inexorability in this brilliant film has no match in Zanussi’s creative output to date.