Innocent Sorcerers
- Tadeusz Łomnicki: Bazyl
- Krystyna Stypułkowska: Pelagia
- Zbigniew Cybulski: Edmund
- Wanda Koczeska: Mirka
- Kalina Jędrusik: journalist
- Teresa Szmigielówna: Nurse Teresa
- Roman Polanski: Dudzio
The innocent magician is a Polish film by Andrzej Wajda in the year 1960.
Action
The film is set in 1960 in Warsaw. Bazyl is a young doctor and jazz drummer. He lives in a spartan studio, dreaming of better times. Individualistic young man dyed his hair blond, is popular with the girls, but incapable of binding. The young women are bored to quickly. His work as a sports physician or a Government Boxvereins bored him as much and not challenge him. In the evening he performs with his jazz band and then hangs around in bars. His friend Edmund accompanies him. Edmund would have liked to success with women, the Bazyl, but has not utilized. In a jazz bar Edmund sees a young girl and persuaded Bazyl to help him, the young woman is with her male companion to hit on. Edmund driving his taxi in front of the pub, as the couple leaves the premises. The young man gets in, Edmund takes off immediately and lets the girls no chance to enter also. She remains with Bazyl on the road. Bazyls plan was going to go with her back to the restaurant and to say that Edmund would come again. However, the young woman can not persuade. Bazyl accompanies her to the train station. She lives outside of Warsaw, but lets leave the last train and spends the night together with Bazyl. The night is marked by intellectual, ironic conversations and gentle approaches. When the morning dawns, to Bazyl has fallen in love with the unknown girl. When his friends from the jazz band lure him out of the apartment and Bazyl then comes back, the girl is gone. However Bazyl sets out to search across Warsaw, they can not find. He knows only their invented name " Pelagia " and do not even know where she lives suburb of Warsaw. Disappointed versa Bazyl back home and finds Pelagia, who has already prepared the tea for breakfast. However, he tries to leave nothing to note of his infatuation. When Pelagia leaves his apartment, he do not stop them. Already in the staircase makes however versa.
Background
The film shows a new generation in communist Poland, which still dominated by his war experiences and youthful hunger for freedom their place in the new society can not be found. In jazz, they find a way of expressing their aspirations. The jazz pianist and composer Krzystzof Komeda, who got the soundtrack and later became world famous through his music to Rosemary's Baby, as the main character Bazyl was also a doctor and was in medical school jazz. In a small roles as bassist for the jazz band, the director of Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski is seen.
The film premiered on 17 December 1960 in Warsaw. In German cinemas it was shown at least 1965 BALI Berlin -Zehlendorf. The film had its television premiere in Germany in 1963 on West German television. On 6 August 1992, the film was shown on 3sat. The Berlinale showed a restored copy within a retrospective of young European cinema of the 1960s, 2002.
Reviews
" A sensitive redrawn, presentational and scenically remarkable love story that goes well beyond melancholy and pessimism. The emergence of a young generation to a new social order is indeed addressed only indirectly, but clearly leads the film in mind that the vacuum between, yesterday and tomorrow 'is not to be filled with the hangover of helplessness. "