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Screen Tests

Screen Tests (1977)★ 6.5/10

PL · 99 min · May 16, 1977

  • Drama
  • Romance

Directed by: Jerzy Domaradzki, Agnieszka Holland, Pawel Kedzierski

Written by: Jerzy Domaradzki, Feliks Falk, Agnieszka Holland, Pawel Kedzierski

A film about a film being made by a group of young directors. Story is divided into three parts. The first follows Anka, a girl from a working- class family. She finishes school, plans to attend screen tests, and has her first love affair during the summer holidays. Her experience with a boy who wants to pass her to his buddy leaves an emotional scar. In the second segment the film follows Pawel, who leaves the children's home and wants to become a theatre actor. He joins a provincial amateur production where he has an affair with a married woman, the wife of his employer. In the final piece the two are found at the screen tests. They make to the final list and have an affair together. During the last screen test they are asked to improvise a scene, and Anka repeats exchanged between them the night before. That angers Pawel and he leaves.

Directed by

Jerzy DomaradzkiAgnieszka HollandPawel Kedzierski

Written by

Jerzy DomaradzkiFeliks FalkAgnieszka HollandPawel Kedzierski

Cast & crew

Daria TrafankowskaAnka KaraszkiewiczAndrzej PieczynskiPawel BurskiMiroslawa MarchelukKrystynaUrszula ModrzynskaAnka's motherSlawa KwasniewskaAunt WackaZbigniew BielskiStefanAleksander MaciejewskiTomekBogdan BentynAndrzejAndrzej WajdaSelfDaniel OlbrychskiSelfJanusz GlowackiMan at barAndrzej ChrzanowskiSelfMaciej KarpinskiSecond unit directorJanusz ZaorskiReceptionistMaria WachowiakWoman at barJózef BadydaEngineerStanislaw CewinskiPresenterStefan CzyzewskiPawel's roommateJanusz HejnowiczJacek KleyffGuideMalgorzata KotMonikaWieslaw KowalczykJolanta Kozak-SutowiczBaskaKazimierz OstrowiczAnka's fatherBeata AndrzejewskaGirl at screen tests (uncredited)Adam FerencyPawel's understudy (uncredited)Agnieszka HollandDirector Agnieszka (uncredited)Mieczyslaw KobekSecond unit director (uncredited)John PorterForeign hotel guest at reception desk (uncredited)Malgorzata ZajaczkowskaGirl at Screen Tests (uncredited)