Camouflage
One of the greatest works of the Cinema by the Moral Concern Movement with the great part of Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as a contemporary Mephistopheles. The director, Krzysztof Zanussi, intended to make this story of the seduction of a young idealist into a discourse on nature and culture but the contemporary audience chose to interpret the scholarly milieu as a metaphor for Poland of the 1970s, a system deprived of ethical foundations which created cynics and conformists. As the director later remarked: “the reality presented on the screen has altered only in some details since”…
Written by: Krzysztof Zanussi
Director of photography: Edward Kłosińki
Music by: Wojciech Kilar
Production design by: Tadeusz Wybult, Maciej Putowski, Ewa Braun, Joanna Lelanow
Costume design by: Anna Biedrzycka
Make-up: Maria Papińska
Editing: Urszula Śliwińska
Sound: Wiesława Dembińska
Cast: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul, Mariusz Dmochowski(prorector), Wojciech Alaborski(dozent Kiszewski from Wrocław), Mieczysław Banasik(Mr Józef), Krystyna Bigelmajer(Mrs Zofia), Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska(dean’s office director), Alfred Freudenheim(management representative), Marian Glinka(manager of the resort), Anna Grzeszczak(girl from the kitchen), Iwona Słoczyńska(Mrs Ania), Krystyna Sznerr(Mrs Magda), Lech Emfazy Stefański(dozent), Marek Wojciechowski(Mr Franek), Magdalena Zawadzka(Mariola, prorector’s wife), Eugeniusz Priwiezieńcew(Konrad Raczyk, student from Toruń, Riccardo Salvino(camp participant from Italy), Andrzej Bartmański, Hanna Bieluszko(student), Hanna Bieniuszewicz(student), Ryszard Faron(Grusznic, student), Mieczysław Hryniewicz(student), Małgorzata Jarmicka, Dorota Kamińska(studentka Maria Piechowiak, zwyciężczyni konkursu), Tomasz Kamiński, Ilona Łepkowska
Production manager: Tadeusz Drewno
Produced by: PRF “Zespoły Filmowe” – Zespół “Tor”
