How to Be Loved

A plane heading for Paris becomes a time machine for Felicja. She travels back in time to the war-time Cracow where during the German occupation she offered a safe hiding place to her greatest love, actor Wiktor Rawicz, suspected of murdering a Volksdeutscher. Sacrifice was not enough for her to be loved, while love could not save anyone.

A film adaptation of Kazimierz Brandys’s novel. The only masterpiece of the Polish Film School with a heroine, which stresses the concealment of the war-time drama of women, which took place outside the great history, in the works of the authors of the Film School – a fact emphasized by a mock reference to the famous scene from “Ashes and Diamonds” in which the heroes recall their fallen friends. Barbara Krafftówna in the role of her life and Zbigniew Cybulski challenging the myth of Maciek Chełmicki, the protagonist of “Ashes and Diamonds”.

Credits

Reżyseria

Wojciech Jerzy Has

directed by

Wojciech J. Has

written by

Kazimierz Brandys

director of photography

Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz

music by

Lucjan Kaszycki

production design by

Anatol Radzinowicz

costume design by

Janina Koźmińska

set decorator

Andrzej Płocki

sound by

Bohdan Bieńkowski

editing by

Zofia Dwornik

cast

Barbara Krafftówna (Felicja), Zbigniew Cybulski (Wiktor), Artur Młodnicki (Tomasz), Wieńczysław Gliński (bakteriolog w samolocie), Wiesław Gołas (żołnierz niemiecki), Wiesława Kwaśniewska (fotoreporterka w samolocie), Zdzisław Maklakiewicz (dziennikarz Zenon w samolocie), Tadeusz Kalinowski, Alicja Bobrowska, Zofia Jamry, Kalina Jędrusik, Mirosława Krajewska, Jadwiga Krawczyk, Krzysztof Litwin, Mieczysław Pawlikowski, Tadeusz Pluciński

produced by

ZF Kamera

production management by

Ludgierd Romanis

Obsada

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