Roommates

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1960   >   psychological/ drama

A psychological study of young intellectuals sharing a room in a tenement house in Warsaw and looking in vain for their place in the society.

Young poet Lucjan Salis shares a room with several other people. His roommates make unsuccessful efforts to find a job, joy and happiness. The circumstances force them to be inactive. Salis dies of tuberculosis. The university student commits suicide after failing an exam. Zygmunt, the author of unpublished poems, loses hope for achieving anything in life. Only his brother Mietek pursues his goal as a member of a leftist organisation.


Crew:

director
Wojciech Jerzy Has
script
Wojciech Jerzy Has
d.o.p.
Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz
designer
Jerzy Skarżyński, Wojciech Krysztofiak
editor
Zofia Dwornik
music
Lucjan Kaszycki
cast
Mieczysław Gajda, Gustaw Holoubek,
Adam Pawlikowski, Anna Łubieńska,
Beata Tyszkiewicz, Irena Netto
Materials: SD
Length: 92’

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