''Walkover'' ( pl, Walkower) is a 1965

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directed by

Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski (, born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début ''Oko wykol' ...

Plot

This second feature film directed by Skolimowski continues the story of his

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, Andrzej Leszczyc, from '' Rysopis''. Young Andrzej Leszczyc, a dropout from

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, comes to a small city where he meets a former classmate, Teresa Karczewska, now a manager at the energy plant. She get him a job at the factory but Andrzej is also a veteran

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and has come to participate in a local, amateur boxing tournament.

Cast

* Aleksandra Zawieruszanka as Teresa Karczewska *

as Andrzej Leszczyc *

Krzysztof Chamiec Krzysztof Chamiec (2 February 1930 – 11 October 2001) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 45 films and television shows between 1962 and 2001. Selected filmography * ''Panienka z okienka'' (1964) * ''The First Day of Freedom'' (1 ...

as factory chief *

Elżbieta Czyżewska Elżbieta Justyna Czyżewska (May 14, 1938 – June 17, 2010) was a Polish actress active in both Poland and the United States. She gained critical acclaim in the early 1960s that culminated in breakthrough performances in ''The Saragossa Ma ...

as girl on the station *

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 ...

as Marian Pawlak * Stanisław Marian Kamiński * Andrzej Jurczak *

Franciszek Pieczka Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best ...

Reception

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, in the essays collected in ''Godard on Godard'', wrote that this was one of the three films that he’d most want to write about if he were still a working

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, praising Skolimowski for shifting between the "particular" and the "general", because the director "describes the individual and the environment at the same time, and probably does it better than anybody else.” Richard Brody of ''

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'' wrote that the film is "one of the masterworks of the brash, youthful, and defiant cinematic modernism of the mid-sixties, a film of a Polish New Wave that shares the insolence, the rejection of authority, and the energies of revolt that also mark the

French New Wave French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconocla ...

References

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