''I Hate Mondays'' ( pl, Nie lubię poniedziałku) is a 1971

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comedy film directed by

Tadeusz Chmielewski Tadeusz Chmielewski (; 7 June 1927 – 4 December 2016) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer, most notable for being one of the pioneers of popular Polish comedy. During World War II and until 1948, he was a soldier for the N ...

Plot

The action of the film takes place on an unlucky Monday in

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and focuses on episodes from the lives of a dozen or so characters. Italian industrialist Francesco Rovanelli (Kazimierz Witkiewicz), who comes to Warsaw with the intention of signing a lucrative contract, unexpectedly gets lost in a foreign city. A

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officer (Andrzej Herder) in charge of the movement has to take care of his little son, who, like other children, has not been admitted to the kindergarten because of the

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that prevails there, and his wife (Joanna Kasperska), who works in a matrimonial office, cannot leave her job. The delegate of the commune cooperative (Jerzy Turek) is looking for a spare part for a

combine harvester The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnow ...

and argues with the impetuous taxi driver (Adam Mularczyk), and the drunk actor Bohdan Łazuka (appearing as himself) tries to get home, walking through the awakening Warsaw led by

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tracks, in which he stuck the crank to the car.

Cast

* Kazimierz Witkiewicz – Francesco Rovanelli *

Jerzy Turek Jerzy Turek (17 January 1934 – 14 February 2010) was a Polish actor and performer. Turek was born on 17 January 1934 in the eastern village of Tchórzowa. He died on 14 February 2010 in Warsaw at the age of 76. Selected filmography * '' K ...

– Zygmunt Bączyk * Zygmunt Apostoł – Artist *

Kazimierz Rudzki Kazimierz Rudzki (6 January 1911, in Warsaw, Poland – 2 February 1976, in Warsaw) was a Polish stage and film actor, theatre director. Studied directing at Państwowy Instytut Sztuki Teatralnej. Actor of Syrena Theatre (also director), Nati ...

– Director *

Adam Mularczyk Adam Mularczyk (Born January 19, 1923 in Poland – June 12, 1996 in Philadelphia) was a Polish theatre director and radio and film actor. He emigrated to the USA in 1974. Mularczyk iinterredat Our Lady of Czestochowa Cemetery in Doylestown, PA. ...

– Taxi Driver *

Bogusz Bilewski Bogusz Bilewski (25 September 1930 in Starachowice – 14 September 1995 in Wrocław) was a Polish actor. In 1974 he portrayed a secondary role in the Academy Award-nominated film ''The Deluge'' under Jerzy Hoffman. Selected filmography * ...

– Driver *

Andrzej Gawroński Andrzej Gawroński (20 June 1885 in Geneva – 11 January 1927 in Józefów, in the vicinity of Warsaw) was a Polish Indologist, linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lwów University, (starting in 1916), the author of t ...

– Wladek *

Mieczysław Czechowicz Mieczysław Czechowicz (28 September 1930 in Lublin – 14 September 1991 in Warsaw) was a Polish actor, one of the most famous of all time. Career A graduate of Warsaw's State Theatrical Academy ( Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna), Czechow ...

– Thief *

Andrzej Herder Andrzej Herder (31 August 1937, in Warsaw, Poland – 21 May 2002, in Łódź, Poland) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Biography Herder was a 1960 graduate of the Acting Department of the National Film School in Łódź. He was awarded the M ...

– Cop *

Halina Kowalska Halina is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Halina Łukomska (born 1929), Polish soprano *Halina Aszkiełowicz (born 1947), Polish former volleyball player and 1968 Olympic medallist *Halina Balon (born 1948), Polish fencer *H ...

– Marianna

Reception

''I Hate Mondays'' was a box-office success.Haltof, M. (2015:xxviii). Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema. United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

References

External links

* * 1971 comedy films 1971 films Polish comedy films 1970s Polish-language films Films set in 1969 Films set in Warsaw {{Poland-film-stub