The Sex Mission

^director Juliusz Machulski
^screenplay Juliusz Machulski
^{director of photography} Jerzy Łukaszewicz
^music Henryk Kuźniak
^with Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Bożena Stryjkówna, Bogusława Pawelec, Hanna Stankówna, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Ryszarda Hanin, Barbara Ludwiżanka, Wiesław Michnikowski, Janusz Michałowski
^{awards (selection)}   Best Screenplay at the International Fantasy Film Festival in Madrid, 1985
 Main Award, Silver Lions for the film and Bronze Lions for ‘Best Art Direction’ (Jerzy Sosnowski) at the 9th Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk, 1984
 Warsaw Marmaid (Syrenka Warszawska) – Film Critics Club SDP Award, 1985
 Golden Duck (Złota Kaczka) ‘Film’ magazine Readers Award, 1985
 1st Class Young People’s Artistic Award named after Stanisław Wyspiański for direction, 1985

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

Maks: I only wanted to know what you have done to all men. Secretary: It’s not us. It’s your Professor Kuppelweiser. During the war, he invented a preparation to paralyse male genes. Someone messed it up and the bomb M, instead of paralysing, destroyed male genes once and for all. Maks: Then we might be useful to you. In reproduction, I mean; to reconstruct the male gender. Within our capabilities, that is. Albert: This is not the first time we’ll make a sacrifice for humanity. Maks: Right. And the payment can be settled after the whole cycle; you can include the bonus for hibernation. Her Excellence: What are they talking about? Berna: They want things to be as they used to. Her Excellence: A world with men? Albert: It’s logical, isn’t it? Tekla: Typically male point of view.

MAŁGORZATA DIPONT, KEEP IT UP, BOYS! [TRZYMAJCIE SIĘ CHŁOPAKI], ‘ŻYCIE WARSZAWY’, 1984, NO. 122

It is amazing that someone like Juliusz Machulski has survived in a cinema with no entertainment tradition. ‘The Sex Mission’ is another comedy, this time in the science-fiction convention. After a fifty-year-long hibernation the heroes begin their play for survival or at least for retaining their manhood. (…) The idea is amusing but also perverse as the issue at stake is the eternal war of sexes, a very modern version of ‘Maidens’ Vows’ from the distant future. Actually, ‘The Sex Mission’ is a great mockery of all feminist movements, in the past, now, or in the future. (…) The female cast sparkles but the main star is Jerzy Stuhr (…) representing the eternal male convinced of the timeless force of sexual attraction, a type excellently contrasted with the sentimental wimp played by Olgierd Łukaszewicz.