One Room Tenants

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.

Cast

Mieczysław Gajda

as Lucjan Salis

Gustaw Holoubek

as Dziadzia

Adam Pawlikowski

as Zygmunt Stukonis

Anna Lubienska

as Leopard

Beata Tyszkiewicz

as Teodozja

Irena Netto

as Stukonisowa

Zdzisław Maklakiewicz

as Józef Bednarczyk

Halina Buyno-Łoza

as Neighbour

Bogusław Danielewski

as Waiter

Krystyna Feldman

as Caretaker

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