director Jerzy Zarzycki
screenplay (based on the story by Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa ‘Zośka’) Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Zarzycki, Julian Dziedzina
director of photography Antoni Wójtowicz
music Stanisław Wisłocki
with Maria Klejdysz, Andrzej Jurczak, Władysław Woźnik, Ewa Stojowska, Wiktor Nanowski, Wiktor Sadecki
awards
Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka Warszawska) – Film Critics' Club SDP Award (along with the film ‘Man on the Track’), 1958
JERZY RAWICZ, MEDITATIONS ON FREEDOM [MEDYTACJE O WOLNOŚCI], ‘PRAWO I ŻYCIE’, 1958, NO. 3
The young boys in the audience were demonstrating such interest and admiration for the feats of the gang on screen that, admittedly, their peers of more loutish nature could fill many screening rooms.
TADEUSZ SOBOLEWSKI, THE MUD OF NOWA HUTA [BŁOTO NOWEJ HUTY], ‘KINO’, 1984, NO. 8
By photographing material situations the authors penetrate the characters’ souls. Objects have become signs of dreams here. The documentary matter is shaped by symbols. The authors seem to look for a middle ground between sociological typicality and the psychological coincidence. (…) The film remains an important document of the era, its atmosphere and its mood which evokes images of passengers hanging in bunches from trams, of ideological banners and hit melodies of the 50’s.
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