Walkover (film)

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

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
Country	Poland
Language	Polish

Plot

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

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, 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.” 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."