Index

^director Janusz Kijowski
^screenplay (based on the short story ‘Brother’ by Andrzej Pastuszek, not mentioned in the credits) Janusz Kijowski
^{director of photography} Krzysztof Wyszyński
^music Jacek Bednarek
^with Krzysztof Zaleski, Ewa Żukowska, Justyna Kulczycka, Małgorzata Niemirska, Lucyna Winnicka, Maria Byszewska, Wiesława Mazurkiewicz, Igor Przegrodzki, Ferdynand Matysik
^{awards (selection)}   Bronze Charybdis at the Taormina International Film Festival 1981
 Honorary Commendation for Krzysztof Zaleski at the 8th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1981
 Grand Prix at the International Film Forum ‘Man-Work- Creation’ in Lublin, 1981

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

Andrzej: I don’t get all those fake gestures, illusions, that rebellion of yours. It all leads nowhere. Moneta: You know a better way, don’t you? Andrzej: Tactics. I want to live here and now. Why be a hero for schoolgirls from boarding schools? You think I’m a rat, don’t you? Moneta: Did I say that? Andrzej: If all worthy people dropped out, you know what we’d have? Moneta: What? Andrzej: One fucking mess, that’s what we’d have.

JERZY PŁAŻEWSKI, JÓZEF M. ODMAWIA ZGODY, ‘EKRAN’,

1981, NO. 22 The ’68 generation is extremely important for Polish culture. Sent to the corner in March ’68, shaken by gunshots in 1970, it had a hard start in life, taking many bumps on the head. (…) Undoubtedly, Kijowski has presented a very evocative model of a young man resisting the temptation of easy consumption at a time when the nation was greedily buying on credit. (…) The film is structured around the idea of protest. The screen on which the director wrote his Mane Tekel Fares for the world of devastating prosperity was shut down by the whim of the then authorities. But the pioneering role of ‘Index’ has earned it a place in the history of Polish film.