I Hate Mondays

The absurdities of the early 1970s (“the age of Edward Gierek”) presented in a funny manner. Another Monday in Warsaw: German measles in a kindergarten, shortage in a marriage bureau – one foreigner is missing but there are plenty of shy girls full of complexes. A visitor from the country desperately seeks spare parts for his combine harvester but suddenly the shops offer toilet paper so everyone walks around the city laden with the paper, showing it like hunter’s trophies. Lifts break down and a new elementary school is to open. An absurdity follows an absurdity but ultimately all the problems are solved. Somehow…