A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Acting
Glover's physical comedy is genuinely unhinged.
Cinematography
Warsaw locations shot like fever dream memories.
Director
Jerzy Skolimowski
Crispin Glover
Miętus
Iain Glen
Józio
Robert Stephens
Prof. Pimco
Judith Godrèche
Ziuta
Jerzy Skolimowski
dyrektor szkoły
Fabienne Babe
Zosia
Tadeusz Łomnicki
wuj Coco
Marek Probosz
Syfon
Artur Żmijewski
Kopyrda
Dorota Stalińska
Młodziakowa
Jan Peszek
Młodziak
Beata Tyszkiewicz
ciotka
Zbigniew Zamachowski
parobek
Krzysztof Janczar
Leo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gombrowicz wrote Ferdydurke in 1937 Argentina; this adaptation finally filmed the 'unfilmable' novel 54 years later.
The film premiered weeks before Soviet bloc collapse— its Polish-British-French co-production already felt like a different world.
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