The Dancing Hawk

With Poland's post-WWII embrace of socialism, peasant-stock cypher Michal Toporny (Franciszek Trzeciak) gladly headed to the big city to grab a role in the new bureaucracy. As he slavishly and single-mindedly devotes decades of his life to advancement within the system, he might be sacrificing his sense of self along the way. Grzegorz Królikiewicz' surreal and satirical opus also stars Beata Tyszkiewicz, Beata Tumkiewicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki. 98 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Polish; Subtitles: English; featurette; bonus shorts "Soup" (1974), "Oh! I Can't Stop!" (1975). In Polish with English subtitles.