Walkover
Jerzy Skolimowski
© Malavida
Andrzej Leszczyc, a young man with no ties, a former boxer and engineer, happens to come across a woman who once betrayed him. She invites him to spend the day with her, and he falls in love with her. But he allows himself to be persuaded by an old acquaintance to take part in another boxing match.
Cast : Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Chamiec,
Andrzej Herder, Franciszek Pieczka
Scenario: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematography: Antoni Nurzynski
Editing: Alina Faflik, Jerzy Skolimowski
Music: Andrzej Trzaskowski
Andrzej Herder, Franciszek Pieczka
Scenario: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematography: Antoni Nurzynski
Editing: Alina Faflik, Jerzy Skolimowski
Music: Andrzej Trzaskowski
Production : Syrena
Distribution : Malavida
Distribution : Malavida
"A school friend of Roman Polanski, for whom he supervised the writing of the screenplay for Knife in the Water, Jerzy Skolimowski was just 27 years old when he completed Walkover, a seminal work in the emergence of Eastern European cinema in the mid-1960s. This debut film, clearly influenced by the conventions of the French New Wave (breaks in tone, an abundance of continuity errors, handheld camerawork), above all allowed the young filmmaker to assert his unique personality by following the journey of a young ideologically adrift boxer, a role Jerzy Skolimowski himself lent his athletic physique and leading-man looks to." (Clément Graminiès; critikat.com)