Jadzia

^director Mieczysław Krawicz
^screenplay Karol Jarossy, Emanuel Schlechter
^{director of photography} Zbigniew Gniazdowski
^music Alfred Szer
^with Jadwiga Smosarska, Józef Orwid, Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, Aleksander Żabczyński

JADWIGA SMOSARSKA; INTERVIEW AFTER THE PREMIERE OF ‘SINFUL LOVE’ [ROZMOWA PO PREMIERZE ‘GRZESZNEJ MIŁOŚCI’], ’KURIER FILMOWY’, 20 X 1929, NO. 2

I was working practically by myself, with the terrible burden of responsibility, knowing that I had to show to Poland everything there is in the field of film. Now I have revived. (…) Until now I had to remember that I was working one for all, that my films must reach the remotest corners of Poland to move poor modest girls – working people.

STEFANIA ZAHORSKA, ’JADZIA’, ’WIADOMOŚCI LITERACKIE’, 1936, NO. 41

The film is quite democratic. It promotes activity in trading and industry, as well as decent competition with a happy matrimonial ending. The plot is based on rivalry between two companies. (…) There is no laziness of the gentry. What is left from the old times, though, is the high standard of decency – despite the various water sports there is no single woman here in a bathing costume. Ms Smosarska has changed her social environment and therefore also her appearance: from a sweet, sentimental person into an active one with tempera-ment…