Fish'n'Chips Story

(Smażalnia story)


1984   >   comedy/ drama

A satirical look at interpersonal connections in rural Poland and village people’s faith in the infinite power of television. Singer Rudi Schubert performs alongside the music group Wały Jagiellońskie.

Broda and Redaktorek return to Poland after a few years spent in Finland. Hidden inside their car are fashionable clothes – a great deposit during the era of martial law in Poland. The plan to sell the clothes once they get back home.  A film camera is hidden inside an accordion suitcase. The men spend their first night back in their home country in a restaurant. A group of bandits who rob returning Poles is at large in the coastal regions. Broda and Redaktorek wake up in the middle of the forest after having been robbed of all their belongings. All they have left is a broken car and a camera. A passing military patrol helps the musicians by calling on local residents, who upon seeing the camera and the car with “TV” stickers take them for TV reporters. The sensational news soon makes it around the area. Broda and Redaktorek take on new roles. They attend several parties and banquets, and become interested in local beauty queen Kasia. The TV crew makes local officials panic, with their head ordering his subordinates to cover up the case of a fried food stand, the construction of which has taken years. When Prysley, the lead singer in the group “Poor Men’s Mill” arrives, the real identities of the two impostors are revealed. They run away. The top official demands the fried food stand be bulldozed. Meanwhile, the real TV reporters arrive…


Crew:

director
Józef Gębski
script
Andrzej Bartosz, Wiesław Janicki
d.o.p.
Maciej Kijowski
designer
Roman Wołyniec
editor
Elżbieta Kurkowska
music
Wały Jagiellońskie
cast
Zbigniew Buczkowski, Zdzisław Smektała,
Wiesław Drzewicz, Wojciech Brzozowicz,
Ryszard Pietruski, Leon Niemczyk
Materials: SD
Length: 82’

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