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Walkover
Directed by	Jerzy Skolimowski
Written by	Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring	Aleksandra Zawieruszanka Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematography	Antoni Nurzyński
Edited by	Alina Faflik
Music by	Andrzej Trzaskowski
Release date	1965 (1965)
Running time	70 minutes^[1]
Country	Poland
Language	Polish

Walkover (Polish: Walkower) is a 1965 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.

Plot

This second feature film directed by Skolimowski continues the story of his alter ego, Andrzej Leszczyc, from Rysopis.^[1] ^[2]

Young Andrzej Leszczyc, a dropout from engineering school, comes to a small city where he meets a former classmate, Teresa Karczewska, now a manager at the energy plant. She get him a job at the factory but Andrzej is also a veteran boxer and has come to participate in a local, amateur boxing tournament.

Cast

Aleksandra Zawieruszanka as Teresa Karczewska
Jerzy Skolimowski as Andrzej Leszczyc
Krzysztof Chamiec as factory chief
Elżbieta Czyżewska as girl on the station
Andrzej Herder as Marian Pawlak
Stanisław Marian Kamiński
Andrzej Jurczak
Franciszek Pieczka

Reception

Jean-Luc Godard, in the essays collected in Godard on Godard,^[3] wrote that this was one of the three films that he’d most want to write about if he were still a working film critic, praising Skolimowski for shifting between the "particular" and the "general", because the director "describes the individual and the environment at the same time, and probably does it better than anybody else.”^[2] Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote that the film is "one of the masterworks of the brash, youthful, and defiant cinematic modernism of the mid-sixties, a film of a Polish New Wave that shares the insolence, the rejection of authority, and the energies of revolt that also mark the French New Wave."^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Walkower" [Walkover] (in Polish). Leon Schiller State School of Film, Television and Theater. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Brody, Richard (5 May 2023). "Catching Up to a Great Film That I Waited Decades to See". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^ Godard, Jean-Luc (1986) [1972]. Godard on Godard. Boston, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306802591.

Films directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

Walkover (1965)
Identification Marks: None (1965)
Barrier (1966)
Ręce do góry (1967)
The Departure (1967)
The Adventures of Gerard (1970)
Deep End (1970)
King, Queen, Knave (1972)
The Shout (1978)
Moonlighting (1982)
Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
The Lightship (1985)
Torrents of Spring (1989)
Ferdydurke (1991)
Four Nights with Anna (2008)
Essential Killing (2010)
11 Minutes (2015)
EO (2022)

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