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Colonel Kwiatkowski

1996 · 123 min

A wry, bittersweet postwar caper that balances absurd impersonation with the weight of ruined lives and fragile hope.

Overview
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face.

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • deception
  • justice
  • power
  • love
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour6
Realism7
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, history
Directed by
Kazimierz Kutz
Written by
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński
Starring
Marek Kondrat, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Renata Dancewicz, Adam Ferency, Artur Barciś, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Krzysztof Globisz, Tomasz Schimscheiner
Music
Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz
Cinematography
Grzegorz Kędzierski
Runtime
123 min
Country
Poland
Languages
Polish

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