

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
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.