Hotel Pacific

^director Janusz Majewski
^screenplay (based on the novel of the same name by Henryk Worcell – real name Tadeusz Kurtyka) Pavel Hajný
^{director of photography} Miroslav Ondřiček
^music Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
^with Marek Kondrat, Roman Wilhelmi, Cestimir Randa, Roman Skamene, Michał Pawlicki, Stanisława Celińska
^awards
 prizes for direction, screenplay and prize for Marek Kondrat at the International Film Festival in Panama, 1977
 prize for acting achievements for Roman Wilhelmi and Best Sound (Stanisław Piotrowski) at the 2nd Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk, 1975
 Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka Warszawska) – Film Critics Club SDP Award, 1976
 ’Film’ magazine award, Golden Camera for ‘Best Acting Debut’ for Marek Kondrat, 1976

HENRYK WORCELL, HOTEL PACIFIC [ZAKLĘTE REWIRY], 1936

He turned round and asked: Why are you hitting me? Then Fornalski hit him in the teeth with the back of his hand. The upper lip began to bleed (…) This constant tormenting was driving Romek to despair. Every night before falling asleep he fought heroic battles against Fornalski. He fired revolvers at him, smashed chairs on his head (…) or cold-bloodedly refused help: Die, you bastard, die! Alas, Fornalski – though annihilated so many times – was still alive and probably ignorant of his own defeats.

KONRAD EBERHARDT, AN UNCONVENTIONAL SCHOOL OF LIFE [NIEKONWENCJONALNA SZKOŁA ŻYCIA], ‘KINO’, 1975, NO. 11

For Majewski, a crowded kitchen, a boggy yard soaked with filthy dishwater or dark corners of an old building are all a domain of magic. Every detail, every object emits subtle magical radiation here. (…) Evil is shown with an openness that is suspicious for it tempts one to underestimate it. In fact, its face is hidden because it is most dangerous just when it assumes a mask of alleged absolute necessity.