Leprosy

^director Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki
^screenplay Aleksander Ścibor- Rylski
^{director of photography} Antoni Nurzyński
^music Tomasz Stańko
^with Zygmunt Malanowicz, Anna Górska, Elżbieta Kępińska, Henryk Bąk, Henryk Hunko, Witold Pyrkosz
^awards
 Jury Special Commendation and Special Commendation awarded to Zbigniew Malanowicz at the ‘Youth and Film’, Film Meetings in Koszalin, 1973

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

‘So how many have you had today?’ ‘Doesn’t matter. It’s them who want it.’ ‘And it’s you who makes them happy’. ‘I don’t force them.’ ‘You’ve always been good. You’ve never beaten them. Only sometimes you try to scare them with that guy Matusiak.’ ‘How many have you had so far?’ ‘Quite a few.’ ‘So why do you pity them? They’re all whores.’

JANUSZ GŁOWACKI, SELF-ABUSE FOR VOLUNTEERS [SAMOGWAŁT NA OCHOTNIKA], ‘KULTURA’, 1972, NO. 3

(…) Trzos’s film is ‘depressing and grim’. Indeed, the director could have done better than that for a Christmas present. The film tells about a boss of a gang of rapists and sex traffickers. These things do happen here but why make a sad film? (…) Mr Trzos could not see the wood for the trees and missed the chance of a more cheerful and attractive way to fill a prime-time slot. To see Pyrkosz or Hunko on holiday would guarantee good fun. This hard problem could have been looked at from a brighter side, and not through the director’s dark glasses.