Andrzej Leszczyc
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The Adam Mickiewicz Institute presents: A short introduction to Jerzy Skolimowski's "Walkover" (1965) by the film critic Błażej Hrapkowicz.This is part of vi...
- 2 min
- 112
- Instytut Adama Mickiewicza
Walkover: Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. With Jerzy Skolimowski, Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Krzysztof Chamiec, Andrzej Herder. A young boxer Andrzej Leszczyc not only has to face a tough boxing opponent but needs to make some serious personal and professional choices.
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- Drama, Sport
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- 1965-06-04
May 5, 2023 · “Walkover” is indeed one of the masterworks of the brash, youthful, and defiant cinematic modernism of the mid-sixties, a film of a Polish New Wave. Photograph courtesy Wytwórnia Filmów ...
Young Andrzej Leszczyc, a dropout from engineering school, 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 boxer and has come to participate in a local, amateur boxing tournament .
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
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- Zespół Filmowy "Syrena
- Jerzy Skolimowski
Brief Synopsis. An amateur boxer about to turn thirty bumps into an old girlfriend from his college days. He spends the night with her and then goes on to win his next fight by a "walkover."
Fifty years ago in New York: “Gertrud”, “Charulata”, “Sandra” and more. The autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
