Cinema
Top Dog
Wodzirej
Feliks Falk · 1978
Synopsis
In a provincial town, Lutek Danielak, a host of evenings and banquets, wants at all costs to be chosen to lead the grand ball of the hotel that has just opened. He strings together small parties at a frantic pace, borrows ever larger sums from Lasota, gives up his partner in exchange for a car voucher, betrays and crushes his best friend, Romek, without ever dropping the smile of his trade.
Context
Shot in 1977 and released on 24 July 1978, the film is one of the major titles of the cinema of moral anxiety, alongside the films of Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Kieślowski. Jerzy Stuhr, in the role of Lutek Danielak, found in it one of the roles that made him a figure of this movement. The film criticises the practices of those in power in a veiled manner, and its director returned to the character nine years later in Bohater roku, with the same actor.
Who it is for
A film carried by a single actor who is almost always on screen, behind the scenes of provincial dances.
Prizes and reception
Złote Grono at the Łagów festival, and regarded as a masterpiece of the movement to which it belongs.
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