Colonel Kwiatkowski

^director Kazimierz Kutz
^screenplay Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
^{director of photography} Grzegorz Kędzierski
^music Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
^with Marek Kondrat, Renata Dancewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Adam Ferency, Artur Barciś, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Krzysztof Globisz
^awards
 Best Actor for Marek Kondrat at the 20th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 1995
 Silver Grape at Lubuskie Film Summer in Łagów, 1996
 Tarnowska Film Award: Bronze Statue of Leliwita, 1996
 award of the Mayor of Słupca for Renata Dancewicz at the Słupca Review of Films ‘Provinciality’, 1996
 Golden Film (Złota Taśma), award of the Writers Association SFP, 1997
 Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka), ‘Film’ magazine Readers Award, 1997

FIND THE COLONEL [ZNAJDŹ PUŁKOWNIKA], ‘GŁOS WIELKOPOLSKI’, 1996, NO. 102

The promotion campaign of ‘Colonel Kwiatkowski’ in Poznań was rather unconventional. Posters appeared in town warning against a dangerous criminal gang that undermines the Polish political system and alliances and operates all over the country under the name of Colonel Kwiatkowski.

JACEK SZCZERBA, OUR MAN IN SECRET POLICE [NASZ CZŁOWIEK W UB], ‘GAZETA WYBORCZA’, 1996, NO. 107

The dazzling comedy ‘Colonel Kwiatkowski’ by Kazimierz Kutz is a witty appendix to the series by the Polish Film School. There is none of the pressure of Polish national myths, no sacrifices on the altar of the country, no dilemma whether it is true or cheap heroism. (…) The film looks back at the end of the war from a lengthy perspective which yields wisdom, but it has no ambition to resolve doubts. It does not provide easy answers to questions of the type: how to react in the new political situation of 1945? To get killed in the woods, wait it all out or flee the country? This film lets you look with detachment at the ‘Polish complex’. It disarms it with humour.