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…

Written by: Tadeusz Chmielewski
Director of photography: Mieczysław Jahoda
Music by: Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
Production design by: Halina Dobrowolska
Sound: Jerzy Szawłowski
Editing: Maria Orłowska
Interior design by: Ewa Kowalska
Costume design by: Barbara Ptak, Renata Własow
Cast: Kazimierz Witkiewicz, Zygmunt Apostoł, Bogusz Bilewski, Mieczysław Czechowicz, Andrzej Gawroński
Production manager: Stanisław Daniel
Produced by: Zespół Filmowy Plan