

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
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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