Walkover
Walk-Over
Jerzy Skolimowski
Ex-boxer Andrzej, single and about to turn 30, moves to the industrial city of Plock. By chance he meets Teresa, an ex-girlfriend, who now works as an engineer in an immense factory. The sports club for the factory where Teresa works asks Andrzej to get back into the ring. Andrzej, for whom any boxer who declares forfeit ("Walkover") is dishonoured, accepts the proposition...
With : Jerzy Skolimowski, Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Krysztof Chamiec, Andzej Herder
Screenplay : Jerzy Skolimowski
Music : Andrzej Trzaskowski
Editing : Jerzy Skolimowski, Alina Faflik
Screenplay : Jerzy Skolimowski
Music : Andrzej Trzaskowski
Editing : Jerzy Skolimowski, Alina Faflik
Production : ZRF Syrena - WFF Lodz
Distribution: Film Polski
Distribution: Film Polski
A director, scriptwriter, writer and actor, Skolimowski (1936) first studied ethnography at Warsaw University before joining the Lodz Film School. He co-wrote the script for Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers, as well as for Polanski's Knife in the Water. Considering cinema to be first and foremost a means of personal expression, Skolimowski ignored all dramatic logic to construct a completely subjective universe in which the anti-heros are in a permanent state of voyaging and doubt. "In this belated sentimental education, the hero of Walk-over can't make up his mind to cut himself off from the uncertainties and more or less dramatic anxieties and contradictions of youth, as if he worried that every choice was a definitive engagement" (G. Dupeyron).