Has’s first film in a decade was this wistful adaptation of a Chekhov short story, depicting a routine couple of days in the life of an elderly professor (Gustaw Holoubek) dealing with tedious professional and personal matters while musing about whether his long life has any particularly significant meaning. He loathes his daughter’s fiancé, despairs at his students’ intellectual unadventurousness, and the one person that he truly likes, Katarzyna (Hanna Mikuć), turns out to have problems of her own. The title is, of course, ironic: the events may be routine, but they construct a psychological portrait of a complicated man.
