A dead director's life flashes before his eyes—spoiler: it's mostly erectile dysfunction and regret.
One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Acting
Cezary Pazura's physical comedy of male fragility is devastating.
Writing
Koterski's self-lacerating script invented Polish sadcom decades before it was cool.
Direction
Morgue framing device turns bleak memoir into cinematic fever dream.
Director
Marek Koterski
Cezary Pazura
Adam Miauczyński
Marek Kondrat
Film Director
Ewa Błaszczyk
Beata Miauczyńska
Henryk Bista
Pyrotechnist
Jerzy Bończak
Technician
Krzysztof Kowalewski
Producer
Wojciech Wysocki
Actor
Piotr Machalica
Miki Miauczyński
Agnieszka Wagner
Adam's Mother
Bronisław Pawlik
Censor
Monika Donner-Trelińska
Małgosia
Zbigniew Buczkowski
Funeral's Home Worker
Katarzyna Gajdarska
Ildiko
Bożena Dykiel
Dentist
Maciej Kozłowski
Maciej
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Koterski's 'Miauczyński' films created a uniquely Polish genre: the intellectual self-pity comedy, spawning decades of depressed male protagonists in Eastern European cinema.
The semi-autobiographical elements are so thinly veiled that Koterski's actual ex-wife reportedly refused to speak to him for years after release.
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