One night noble married couple Fabiusz and Waleria find that their long-estranged friend Mucjusz has returned from his travels of distant lands. During dinner, he presents them with mysterious and exotic gifts.
The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center
Юлиуш Зборский, некогда талантливый архитектор, вернулся из концлагеря сломленным, больным, измученным. С тех пор прошло 4 года. За время его долгого отсутствия, потеряв надежду на возвращение Юлиуша, его жена Роза завязала новые отношения - со своим начальником, профессором Стенгенем. Теперь оба не знают, что делать. Они уверены только в одном: нельзя причинить Юлиушу новую боль.
