One of the merely three feature films of Marek Piwowski, a great director of documentaries and author of the iconic comedy “Rejs” chosen as “the most interesting Polish film of the 20th century” in the plebiscite of “Polityka” weekly.
The winner of the Main Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 3rd Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk and a “Golden Camera” awarded by the readers of the “Film” magazine.
A film resembling the American cop action films of the seventies.
Most of the characters were played by amateur actors with Jerzy Kulej and Jan Szczepański, boxing champions as cops. Jan Szczepański was dubbed by Marek Piwowski.
A realistic and engrossing story of a group of criminals and cops who chase them and reject moral standards in the name of law.
Warsaw cops conduct an investigation regarding Belus, a dangerous burglar, who is just planning a big burglary. This intelligent, charismatic criminal has been long evading the police. The cops, outsmarted by him many times before, force a minor conman to join Belus’s band. The blackmailed “Student” becomes a snitch that allows the police to monitor the gang’s activities. While trying to rob the “Sezam” department store the thieves get caught in a trap and “Student” unwittingly knocks Belus off a roof of a building.
The film is very realistic because of being shot in authentic locations, as for instance inside and on the roof of the Cooperative Department Store SEZAM in Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw.
A cameo appearance by Krzysztof Cugowski playing the singer in the “Maxim” restaurant who performs the song “Podarowany dzień” from Budka Suflera’s repertoire.
