Hands Up!

Ręce do góry

France, Poland

1981

76 Min

Color

1.60:1

Polish

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Andrzej Kostenko, Jerzy Skolimowski

DP Andrzej Kostenko, Witold Sobociński

CAST Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Bogumił Kobiela, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, David Essex, Bruno Ganz, Karol Kulik, Michael Sarne, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Fred Zinnemann

ED Grazyna Jasinska-Wisniarowska

Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon to the set of Volker Schlöndorff’s “The Forgery” where Skolimowski plays a lead role. Another shift takes us to London, where Skolimowski shoots a street scene. There are also shifts into the past with the old footage, featuring a score of Polish actors in a setting resembling Kantor’s experimental theatre. —Polish Cinema Database

Director

Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski (born May 5, 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious Polish Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). He lived in Los Angeles where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and acted occasionally in films. More recently, he began dividing his time between the US and Poland and returned to film making as a writer and director after a 17 year hiatus with Four Nights With Anna (Cztery noce z Anna) in 2008.

–Wikipedia

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michal k

19Jun11

To put it simply: one of the most overwhelming, formally innovative, avant-garde movies of the 60. (not to mention that brilliant, totally psychotic intro made 14 years later)