INNOCENT SORCERERS
[NIEWINNI CZARODZIEJE]
Following his lauded War Trilogy, Andrzej Wajda turned his camera on Poland’s socially modern but politically disengaged postwar generation, working with a screenplay by Jerzy Andrzejewski (ASHES AND DIAMONDS) and a very young Jerzy Skolimowski to chronicle one jazz-fueled night in the life of two Warsaw 20-somethings. When hipster doctor Bazyli (Tadeusz Łomnicki) meets out-of towner Pelagia (Krystyna Stypułkowska) at a nightclub, they spend a night flirting to the jazz tunes of Krzysztof Komeda after Pelagia misses the last train. Embracing a style similar to the contemporaneous French New Wave and foreshadowing the minimalist ease and naturalistic romance of BEFORE SUNRISE, INNOCENT SORCERERS is a key portrait of Poland’s disillusioned youth in the 1950s. DIR Andrzej Wajda; SCR Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Skolimowski. Poland, 1960, b&w, 83 min. In Polish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 83 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, May 17, 2026
Genre: Drama, romance
