At the turn of the 1930s, a group of students and self-styled artist-intellectuals shares a single room in a Warsaw tenement house because that’s all they can afford, while working out how they can fit into pre-WWII Polish society while still maintaining their independence of spirit, expressed most frequently in a sarcastic, darkly comic take on things happening around them. Not for the first time in a Wojciech Has film, Gustaw Holoubek steals every scene he’s in as an eccentric friend of theirs, with a beard so distinctive that a woman asks him if he grew it for erotic reasons.
Please note, tickets will go on sale to the public at https://www.bfi.org.uk/ on the 13 March 2025 (BFI champion members from 10 March & BFI members from 11 March)
