director Marek Koterski
screenplay Marek Koterski
director of photography Jacek Bławut
music Jerzy Satanowski
with Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej Grabowski, Michał Koterski
awards (selection) Eagle, Polish Film Award for Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Marek Kondrat), 2003
Grand Prix, Golden Lions, Best Actor (Marek Kondrat), Best Sound (Maria Chilarecka) and SFP Prize for a creative presentation of reality at the 27th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2002
Tarnowska Film Award: Young People Jury Special Prize for screenplay, 2003
Golden Sickle, Grand Prix in the Best Comedy of Decade Competition at the Comedy Film Festival in Lubomierz, 2006
Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka) on the 50th anniversary of ‘Film’ magazine’s Readers Awards for the category ‘best joke’ for the scene from the film ‘Adaś Miauczyński teaches his son English’, 2007
[ADAŚ MIAUCZYŃSKI’S MONOLOGUE FROM THE FILM]
Do you, gentlemen, have to raise such hell from the palest minutes of daybreak? If I don’t clock in ‘at the works’ at seven a. m., do I have to be in your bloody labourer’s mind, an idler? So that you may bomb the fucking ears of an intellectual right from dawn? So that the pen-pusher couldn’t have a good sleep as he went to bed only just before sunrise?
BARBARA HOLLENDER, ADAŚES GROW IN NUMBERS [CORAZ WIĘCEJ ADASIÓW], ‘RZECZPOSPOLITA’, 2002, NO. 133
Marek Koterski shows us that the pauperization of the intellectual is sometimes accompanied by helplessness and aggression similar to that manifested by the boys from the housing -estate blocks (…), a language overflowing with swear words, coarse behaviour, which becomes the norm. Koterski tells us he has made a comedy. For indeed, what he shows stirs up storms of laughter. The more so because he can rely on the superb creation of Marek Kondrat. But in fact it is a story about being lost in life (…). What remains after leaving the cinema is shock, fright. And Gogol’s tragic question: who are you laughing at?
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