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Documentary about the life of an elderly Tatar couple who live in Kruszyniany village in Podlasie. While Islam and the proximity of a mosque are still important to older people, youth are fleeing from the countryside to the city.
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Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.
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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
