A wrong number, a forged identity, and the Polish answer to screwball chaos.
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
Acting
Kalina Jędrusik's rapid-fire phone panic is comic precision itself.
Direction
Batory wrangles split-screen chaos with Eisenstein-meets-Lubitsch flair.
Production
Mid-60s Warsaw as aspirational modernist playground — stunning period eye candy.
Director
Jan Batory
Kalina Jędrusik
Joanna
Krystyna Sienkiewicz
Janka
Wieńczysław Gliński
Janusz
Andrzej Łapicki
Andrzej
Mieczysław Czechowicz
'Chudy', Gang Member
Jacek Fedorowicz
Gang Member
Ryszard Ronczewski
Printer, Gang Member
Henryk Staszewski
Driver, Gang Member
Roman Sykała
Cashier, Gang Member
Tadeusz Woźniak
Gang Member
Olga Bielska
Maid
Stanisław Bieliński
Cashier
Kazimierz Dejunowicz
Robbed Man
Michał Gazda
Architect
Zbigniew Józefowicz
Militia Lieutenant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Polish Film School's commercial pivot, this was Batory's deliberate bid to prove Polish cinema could match Hollywood's screwball rhythm — and critics initially hated it for being 'too entertaining.'
The telephone exchange scenes required Jędrusik to perform entire conversations alone, with her co-stars' lines read by a script girl off-camera — her timing had to be exact to the frame.
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