Eve Wants to Sleep

^director Tadeusz Chmielewski
^screenplay Tadeusz Chmielewski, Andrzej Czekalski
^{director of photography} Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz
^music Henryk Czyż
^with Barbara Kwiatkowska, Stanisław Mikulski, Ludwik Benoit, Zygmunt Zintel, Maria Kaniewska, Stefan Bartik, Roman Kłosowski, Wacław Kowalski, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Stanisław Milski
^awards
 Golden Shell and Spanish Screenwriters Association Award for the screenplay at the International Film Festival in San Sebastian, 1958
 group awards (along with the films: ‘Eroica’ and ‘The Attack’) recognised as the best at the International Film Festival in Mar del Plata, 1959

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

Lulek: Hey, young lady, a fine brick for just a hundred. Come on… Ewa: You have really frightened me. I thought it was a thief (…) It’s so late and you’re still selling bricks? Lulek: It’s cheaper than a coat. Gimme a hundred and it’s a deal. Fifty? OK, twenty? Ewa: I didn’t even have supper. I have no money. I’ve spent everything on the journey. Lulek: How can you travel without money? You should’ve borrowed some.

ZBIGNIEW PITERA, 20 YEARS OF POLISH FILM; ‘EVE WANTS TO SLEEP’ [NA EKRANIE DWUDZIESTOLECIA. ‘EWA CHCE SPAĆ’], ‘FILM’, 1964, NO. 29

‘Eve Wants to Sleep’ marks the birth of Polish comedy – a genre sparse and somewhat crude in Polish cinema so far. The air of spontaneity during the production seems unattainable today (…) ‘Eve Wants to Sleep’ is very Polish, rooted in everyday reality (…) All those little realities and observations are the basis for the whole metaphor of a topsy-turvy ‘night city’ (…) The authors are consistent in sharpening the material, gradating and accumulating it, pushing to the limits of grotesque and pure nonsense.