Salto

Production credits and date taken from Internet movie database.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.; PFA 1616-01-7508. Restricted: Not for research use.; Cinematography, Kurt Weber; music, Wojciech Kilar ; editing, Irena Chorynska, Jadwiga Jakubowska ; production design, Jaroslaw Switoniak.; Zbigniew Cybulski, Gustaw Holoubek, Marta Lipinska, Irena Laskowska, Wojciech Siemion, Wlodzimierz Borunski.; "The late Zbigniew Cybulski, one of Poland's most brilliant stage and screen actors, plays a man who arrives in a small village, claiming to be pursued by men who wish to kill him. He soon finds refuge and begins to weave a spell over the townspeople. He takes credit for curing two dying children, seduces his host's daughter, and in the film's bizarre climax, teaches the people the 'salto' (a dreamlike slow-motion dance). The arrival of a woman claiming the man as her mentally deranged husband breaks his hypnotic hold on the town, and leads to a chilling finale"--Audio Brandon catalogue, 1976-77, p.381.; PFA 1616-01-7508. D0007; In Polish with English subtitles.