director Barbara Sass
screenplay Barbara Sass
director of photography Wiesław Zdort
music Wojciech Trzciński
with Dorota Stalińska, Stanisław Igar, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Iga Cembrzyńska
awards
Grand Prix of CAALA (Organization for the Enhancement of Film Cooperation between Latin America, Africa and Asia) for the film and CIDALC prize for Dorota Stalińska at San Sebastián International Film Festival, 1983
Grand Prix, the Great Jantar for the film and Audience Award for Dorota Stalińska at the ‘Youth and Film’, Film Meetings in Koszalin, 1983
[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]
Stary: You must learn good manners. Unless you want to go back to where you came from. Marianna: It’s none of your business where I came from. Stary: When were you released? Marianna: A month ago. Stary: See? I was right after all. A thief! Matron: I knew you’d be trouble. Marianna: I can do anything. I’m not afraid of work. I can tidy rooms, clean the bogs. But I’m not going back there again.
JANUSZ GAZDA, IN PRAISE OF ‘THE SCREAM’ [POCHWAŁA ‘KRZYKU’], ‘TYGODNIK KULTURALNY’, 1984, NO. 3
The film represents that kind of reasoning and proficiency on the part of the director which is hard to find in our cinema. (…) In ‘The Scream’ you are always coming into contact with secrets or understatements. (…) You are kept in suspense and expectation and you have to wait until the end for the explanation. Dorota Stalińska in the main role is interesting because of her otherness and peculiarity (…). Maybe we are seeing a conscious attempt at giving a professional ring to popular cinema.
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