One woman plays five different women and nobody questions it. Polish cinema said 'plot? we don't know her.'
Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.
Acting
Teresa Tuszyńska's shape-shifting five-role madness.
Direction
Lenartowicz's gleeful disregard for narrative continuity.
Director
Stanisław Lenartowicz
Zbigniew Cybulski
Janek
Teresa Tuszyńska
Girl / Gloria / Dolores / Sabina / Wanda
Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Leon / Journalist
Krzysztof Litwin
Boy / Sailor / Steward / Servant
Adolf Chronicki
Eryk
Stanisław Gronkowski
Ship Officer
Zdzisław Karczewski
Ship Captain
Zdzisław Kuźniar
Sailor
Krystyna Mikołajewska
Woman in a Harem
Leon Niemczyk
His Excellency
Jerzy Nowak
Bosman
Igor Przegrodzki
Man introducing Harem Candidates
Józef Pieracki
Józef
Ryszard Ronczewski
Sailor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zbigniew Cybulski was Poland's biggest star—think Polish James Dean—yet this weird little comedy barely features him. He died two years later in a train accident.
Made during the Polish October thaw, this slipped through censorship because its nonsense reads as apolitical—though critics now see the fragmented narrative as subtle commentary on fractured national memory.
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