Woman in a Hat

^director Stanisław Różewicz
^screenplay Stanisław Różewicz
^{director of photography} Jerzy Wójcik
^music Jerzy Satanowski
^with Hanna Mikuć, Maria Czubasiewicz, Barbara Dziekan, Krzysztof Gosztyła, Mieczysław Grąbka, Marek Kondrat, Wiesława Mazurkiewicz, Henryk Machalica, Magdalena Wołłejko
^awards
 Silver Medal and FIPRESCI Jury Special Commendation at Moscow International Film Festival, 1985
 Grand Prix, Golden Lions for the film and Individual Prize, Bronze Lions for Zygmunt Nowak (Best Sound) at the 10th Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk, 1985
 1st Class Award of the Ministry of Culture and Art for Stanisław Różewicz, 1985
 2nd Degree Young People’s Artistic Award named after Stanisław Wyspiański for Hanna Mikuć, 1989

STANISŁAW RÓŻEWICZ, A MATTER OF CHOICE; CONVERSATION WITH BOŻENA JANICKA [TO SPRAWA WYBORU. ROZMOWA Z BOŻENĄ JANICKĄ], ‘KINO’, 1985, NO. 3

To see a landscape… To look and to see are two different things. Most often people look but don’t see. So the landscape seen by me or by the characters exists in an objective and subjective narration. (…) I prefer to say little rather than shout. Shouting often covers emptiness and insensitivity.

JERZY PŁAŻEWSKI, EWA BECOMES CORDELIA! [EWA ZOSTAŁA KORDELIĄ!], ‘KINO’, 1985, NO. 3

The mannequin, the woman in a hat, Cordelia – these headwords mark the symbolic stages in the development of a young actress. They are not Ewa’s roles (…) but three imaginary rungs in her career. (…) Cordelia is the myth of King Lear, a great Shakespearean role promised to her and one that she will lose (…) Yet in the aspect of consciousness – the most important for Różewicz – Ewa does become Cordelia. Going through similar humiliations and failures (…) she finds a strength which she knows how to pass on to the audience.