The young protagonist, Elżbieta, grew up in a small town bourgeois house. She rebels against the town's atmosphere and imagines that a love affair with a poet from a big city will liberate her. However, the love affair lasts only for a fleeting moment. It is the young engineers who arrive in the town to build a factory who are the real harbinger of changes in the town itself and the minds of its inhabitants. Based on a novel by Kornel Filipowicz.

Krystyna Wolańska

Elżbieta Jabłońska

Marek Bargiełowski

poeta Fabian Miłobrzeski

Danuta Rastawicka

Irena, koleżanka Elżbiety

Maria Kościałkowska

Matka Elżbiety

Marian Cebulski

inżynier Edward Soniewicz

Edmund Karwański

Mężczyzna w kapeluszu na rynku

Zdzisław Kozień

ksiądz Ryba

Stefania Iwińska

Amelia Brygierowa, koleżanka matki Elżbiety

Michał Grudziński

Wariat Turlej

• Krzysztof WierzbiańskiDirector · Screenplay
• Ryszard SzadajScreenplay
• Jerzy ZielińskiDirector of Photography

Release date

April 6, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

Polish

Genres

Drama