director Jerzy Domaradzki
screenplay Feliks Falk
director of photography Ryszard Lenczewski
music Jerzy Matula
with Tadeusz Bradecki, Jarosław Kopaczewski, Leon Niemczyk, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Tadeusz Chudecki, Edward Żentara
awards
FIPRESCI Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival, 1987
USSR Film Clubs Federation Award at the Moscow International Film Festival (together with the film ‘Blind Chance’), 1987
prize at the Sydney Film Festival, 1987
Main Award, Silver Lions for Best Director in TV production, Individual Prize for Krzysztof Pieczyński (Best Actor, together with his part the film ‘The Boden Lake’) at the 9th Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk, 1986
Warsaw Marmaid (Syrenka Warszawska) – Film Critics Club SDP Award, 1987
Prize awarded by the President of the Radio and Television Committee for direction (together with the film ‘Three Mills’), 1988
ZDZISŁAW PIETRASIK, HERE COMES YOUTH [TO BIEGNIE MŁODOŚĆ], ‘POLITYKA’, 1987, NO. 22
The year 1952. A run for peace has been organized for heroes of socialist labour and youth organization activists. The whole event is a hoax. A tight bunch of organizers deliberately exploits young people’s enthusiasm. The most eager to win are some poor, working class children. (…) In the 1950’s, children from intelligentsia homes, whose parents received a warning from Stalin, found themselves in a troublesome situation. ‘The Great Run’ shows two possible ways out: one of the characters debases himself, the other tries to save his father’s honour. The film did not take the fancy of some decision-makers and had to wait six years to be released. Some critics accused it of showing only part of the truth. Such, too, were reactions of youth organization veterans on a panel after the TV broadcast. Also, the schedule setters cannot have favoured the film, as it ended about midnight.
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