Bad Luck (1960 film) explained

Bad Luck
Native Name:Zezowate szczęście
Director:Andrzej Munk
Starring:Bogumił Kobiela
Cinematography:Jerzy Lipman
Krzysztof Winiewicz
Editing:Jadwiga Zajiček
Studio:Film Polski
Zespół Realizatorów Filmowych „KADR”
Runtime:92 minutes
Country:Poland
Language:Polish

Bad Luck (Polish: '''Zezowate szczęście''') is a 1960 Polish black comedy film directed by Andrzej Munk. [1] [2] The screenplay is based on Jerzy Stawiński’s novel Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk (1959).[3] [4]

Bad Luck was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.[5]

Plot

Bad Luck reflects the episodic source material by novelist Jerzy Stawiński from which it is adapted. Jan Piszczyk is petty bourgeois Jew and son of a Warsaw tailor. The story opens when the middle-aged Piszczyk is laid off from a job, and bemoans his fate. He provides a retrospective on his life in a series of flashbacks, spanning the history of Poland from the rise of fasict anti-Semitism during the 1920s to the postwar Stalinist period. Piszczyk emerges as a political and social chameleon, willing to accommodate himself to any situation. His opportunism propels him repeatedly into ludicrous and pathetic failures.

Cast

Sequel

In 1988, the film Citizen Piszczyk was made, directed by Andrzej Kotkowski. Jerzy Stuhr played the main role.

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Notes and References

  1. Niemitz, 2014: “tragicomedy…”
  2. Zelman, 2013: “The tragi-comedy Bad Luck (Zezowate szczęście, 1960)..."
  3. Niemitz, 2014: “Bad Luck (1960), based on Jerzy Stawiński's novel Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk (1959), like Man on the Tracks, is a retrospective on a life.”
  4. Bren, 2012: “Munk's…overtly comic Bad Luck, is adapted from Stawiński's 1959 novel, Sześć wcieleń Jana Piszczyka (Six Incarnations of Jan Piszczyk), its title accurately suggesting the film's episodic line.”
  5. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Bad Luck . 2009-02-19 . festival-cannes.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120204203316/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3331/year/1960.html . 4 February 2012 . dmy .