Hunting Flies
- Zygmunt Malanowicz: Włodek
- Małgorzata Braunek: Irena, his mistress
- Ewa Skarżanka: Hanka, his wife
- Hanna Skarżanka: Wlada, his mother
- Józef Pieracki: father
- Daniel Olbrychski: Sculptor
- Jacek Fedorowicz: television director
- Marek Grechuta: the son of an important man
- Irena Laskowska: Publisher wife
Flying hunting is a Polish film from the year 1969.
Action
Włodek is 30 years old and broken student of Russian philology. He works as a translator from Russian. He lives with his wife Hanka and the small son in a two -room apartment at the in-laws. Life takes place in the living room; simultaneously for Włodek and Hanka even the bedroom. Here is eaten and the father looks permanently wildlife films on television. From the ceiling hang down sticky flypaper to which the father goes on flying fighter. Here Włodek has his job to work on his own literary works. Actually he wants to be a writer.
From this narrowness he breaks out every evening to get cigarettes. In one of these outbreaks he met at a club the Polonistikstudentin Irena know and begins an affair with her. He now begins to neglect his family and work. From the wife he is constantly stopped to go to the housing association to finally get an apartment for the family. All opportunities for an absence from work he performs well, to meet with Irena. Irena gives him self-confidence and drives him in his literary efforts. She introduces him to important people, which may be conducive of his career. Finally, it is possible that he may make a literary translation for a magazine. His translation is rejected because of language deficiencies.
Włodek keeps the ambitious pressure Irena's no longer standing. Exhausted, he returns to Hanka. But Hanka has changed. Similar to Irena, the Commission invites Włodek of the necessary commitment to a great career. He is now also available at Hanka under similar pressure as Irena. He desperately caught in the flycatchers in the living room.
Reviews
"The film, Wajda's only comedy, mediated with grotesque means an ironic image of the Polish cultural scene. "
Awards
The film was invited to the International Film Festival in Cannes in 1969, was at the award ceremony but left empty-handed.