Yellow Scarf

^director Janusz Morgenstern
^screenplay Jerzy Pilch
^{director of photography} Witold Adamek
^music Michał Lorenc
^with Janusz Gajos, Danuta Szaflarska, Krystyna Janda, Joanna Sienkiewicz, Grażyna Wolszczak
^awards
 Golden Claque for the film with the longest applause, Canal+ President’s Special Prize for acting (Janusz Gajos) at the 25th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, 2000
 Innovation Award for Janusz Gajos at Toronto International Film Festival, 2000
 award for Janusz Gajos the National Film Art Festival ‘Provincionality’ in Września, 2001

[DIALOGUE FROM THE FILM]

Hero: We should all learn how to control our weaknesses. I have such advanced brain lesions that I’m a nutcase. There are moments when I feel an irresistible urge to behave like a nutcase. Ewa: You’re wonderful when you don’t drink. Hero: You’re wonderful… you’re wonderful. I don’t want to be wonderful. I hate being wonderful!!! I want to be free just like you, brothers and sisters. I want to be exactly the same smug moron as you, my brothers and sisters. Ewa: Go and see your mother.

JACEK WAKAR, IN THE ALCOHOLIC LOOP AGAIN [ZNÓW W ALKOHOLOWEJ PĘTLI], ‘ŻYCIE’, 2000, NO. 296

Hardly ever are the critics and audience so unanimous (…) ‘Yellow Scarf’ is a great success. (…) It is the second Polish film that dares to touch upon the hell of alcoholism. Unlike Has’s ‘Noose’, the unbearable brutality of certain scenes here is counterbalanced by the lyricism of others. Both the director and Janusz Gajos in the main role break the overall naturalistic tone with light, refined humour, which stays in conformity with the prose of Pilch. Their story is no longer about one man; it assumes a universal dimension.