Regie:
Marek KoterskiDrehbuch:
Marek KoterskiKamera:
Jacek BławutMusik:
Jerzy SatanowskiBesetzung:
Marek Kondrat, Andrzej Grabowski, Ilona Ostrowska, Dorota Chotecka, Maria Ciunelis, Piotr Fronczewski, Cezary Pazura, Piotr Machalica (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Adaś Miauczyński is a frustrated intellectual in the post-socialist era. The poorly paid teacher hates school and students. He lives in a neighborhood that's driving him crazy. He hates waking up. He's afraid of each new day and of contact with the outside world and his ex-wife and beloved son. As a Polish patriot he's offended by the skirmishes in parliament he follows on TV. High ideals are spiritual food for him, everyday ordinariness is killing him. Pervasive and vulgar advertising enrages him. He takes pills to better his physical and intellectual state. His permanent discontent is vented in near violent behavior. He's used to speaking to himself and monologues richly sprinkled with the word "fuck". He movingly illustrates both the portrait and steep mental decline of the degraded intellectual of our time. (Zlín Film Festival)
(mehr)Kritiken (2)
I can see Polish cinematography hides many a jewel. Take for instance The Day of the Wacko. Who would have thought that a movie like this would even be made in the first place? It’s clear that everybody must find a little something here to identify with. I actually caught myself doing some of the stuff he describes. There were some things I don’t know but that I can easily imagine. And that’s what makes it worse. Well and Marek Kondrat? He’s this movie’s main asset. His portrayal of the wacko is so convincing that at times I laughed so hard I was afraid I would get stitches. Too bad the movie cannot keep this up from beginning to end. Once the wacko stops yapping and describing his day, he for instance meets with his son, which isn’t so great. But in the end he returns to the cynical yapping and the fun can go on.
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x I definitely didn't expect anything from the movie, and then I found myself just watching what I was seeing. Superbly filmed with a sense of absurdity and the ability to go as far as necessary. An excellent Polish film that shows the strength of its cinema.
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