A murdered ice cream man, communist Poland, and two cops who'd rather flirt than solve crimes.
The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
Production
Gdańsk shipyards and crumbling resorts as decaying communist stage.
Writing
Dialogue so deadpan it hurts — police procedural as existential joke.
Director
Sylwester Szyszko
Wojciech Pokora
Sylwester Rogowski
Anna Frankowska-Teter
Joanna Szczęsna
Ludwik Benoit
Maciejewski
Roman Kłosowski
Karaś
Gustaw Lutkiewicz
Dojnarowicz
Henryk Bista
Drabik
Leon Niemczyk
Listkowski’s friend
Jerzy Łapiński
photographer Majka
Ewa Ziętek
Rogowski’s wife
Joanna Bogacka
Marylka Kolska
Hanna Dunowska
Henia
Monika Jóźwik
Ilona Rychter
Maria Mielnikow-Krawczyk
Basia
Waldemar Kownacki
Józek Marocha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Poland's final communist years, it's a rare genre film that sneaked political critique past censors through deadpan absurdism.
Director Szyszko was primarily a documentarian; this was his only fiction feature, which explains the almost anthropological gaze at institutional decay.
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