Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
Acting
Stalińska's ferocious, wounded performance carries every frame.
Direction
Sass's unsparing female gaze dismantles socialist realism.
Production
Warsaw's gray oppressive spaces become a character.
Director
Barbara Sass
Dorota Stalińska
Ewa Bracka
Zdzisław Wardejn
Gawroński
Małgorzata Zajączkowska
Marianna Skoczek
Emilian Kamiński
Marianna's Boyfriend
Jadwiga Polanowska
Małgosia
Małgorzata Pritulak
Anna Kłosińska
Leonard Andrzejewski
Receptionist
Szczepan Baczyński
Doctor
Andrzej Baranowski
Man in the Club
Andrzej Golejewski
Policeman
Barbara Horawianka
Ewa's Mother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned from export, this Polish Film School gem exposed censorship hypocrisy through female sexuality—radical for 1980 communist cinema.
Sass reportedly fought producers who wanted Ewa 'more likable'; her refusal mirrors her protagonist's doomed integrity.
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