Nobody’s Calling

^director Kazimierz Kutz
^screenplay (based on his own novel of the same name) Józef Hen
^{director of photography} Jerzy Wójcik
^music Wojciech Kilar
^with Zofia Marcinkowska, Henryk Boukołowski, Barbara Krafftówna, Halina Mikołajska, Aleksander Fogiel, Ryszard Pietruski, Laura Dębicka

[MONOLOGUE FROM THE FILM]

I did not shoot at the reds. I was not able to. Maybe I should have. My war is over and they are still there.

RAFAŁ MARSZAŁEK, NOBODY’S CALLING [NIKT NIE WOŁA [W:]

POLSKA SZKOŁA FILMOWA], PISF 2008 (DVD) ‘Nobody’s Calling’ is a picture of love initiation – a result of the circumstances and complicated by the way of manifesting feelings. Bożek (Henryk Boukołowski) and Lucyna (Zofia Marcinkowska) meet in the post-war wasteland. Kutz intended to show one elementary thing: how difficult it is for war survivors to find the right gesture and form for their feelings. (…) The film, with camerawork by Wójcik, signalled the arrival of the New Wave. (…) What is notable is the manner of telling the story in which the anecdote recedes to the background. (…) The concepts of narration and open dramatic structure were closely linked with the composition of the picture in which space became maximally reduced, almost ascetic.