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”.

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