director Jerzy Skolimowski
screenplay Jerzy Skolimowski
director of photography Witold Mickiewicz
music Krzysztof Sadowski
with Elżbieta Czyżewska, Jerzy Skolimowski
awards
Grand Prix for Best Director (together with ‘Walkover’) at the Arnhem Film Festival, 1965
awards for direction and cinematography at the Łódź Film School Festival (the festival took place in Warsaw), 1964
Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka Warszawska), Film Critics Club SDP Award, 1965
[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]
Reporter: Would you like to be a cosmonaut? Leszczyc: I’d like something irrevocable to happen, so that you couldn’t back out any more but you could still take decisions after the launch – choosing the direction, the speed, the way to the target (…). It doesn’t have to be the Moon. The point is to be able to give something as a person.
KONRAD EBERHARDT, SKOLIMOWSKI, ‘KINO’, 1967, NO. 3
In ‘Identification Marks: None’ there is no talk about ‘character’, ‘motives’, ‘decisions’ and ‘complexes’. Leszczyc is on a quest for himself, therefore we cannot know about him more than he knows himself. If Skolimowski’s creative output plays such an important role, it is precisely due to the fact that he calls to life an inconsistent hero (…), composed of or rather bringing together contradictory elements. This is of tremendous significance, as the Polish post-war cinema tended to understand the hero in one way only: as a resultant of superior processes of collectivity, of social and historical processes.
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