Your nose leaves you. Gets promoted. Lives your dream life. Rude.
An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.
Practical Effects
1971 nose prosthetics are doing heavy lifting here
Writing
Gogol adaptation that commits to the bit completely
Director
Stanisław Lenartowicz
Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Major Kowalew
Elżbieta Góralczyk
Dasza
Kalina Jędrusik
Kowalew's Lover
Ryszard Kotys
Barber
Ferdynand Matysik
Iwan
Leonard Andrzejewski
Barber
Krystyna Borowicz
Aleksandra Grigoriewna
Wirgiliusz Gryń
Cop
Janusz Kłosiński
Doctor
Maja Komorowska
Plaskowja
Zdzisław Kuźniar
Kowalew's Friend
Krzysztof Litwin
Journalist
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
Kowalew's Friend
Wiesława Mazurkiewicz
Police Chief
Leopold Rene Nowak
Kowalew's Friend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a Polish television production of Gogol's 'The Nose' shot on 16mm film with basically zero budget for effects.
1971 Poland made this satire of bureaucratic ambition while actually living under bureaucratic socialism—subtlety was not the priority.
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