Bad Luck

The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.

Bogumił Kobiela

Jan Piszczyk

Maria Ciesielska

Basia

Helena Dąbrowska

Biuralistka Wychówna

Barbara Lass

Jola

Krystyna Karkowska

Majorowa Wrona-Wrońska, matka Joli

Barbara Połomska

Zosia, żona Jelonka

Irena Stalończyk

Irena Kropaczyńska

Henryk Bąk

Dyrektor

Tadeusz Janczar

Podchorąży Sawicki

Mariusz Dmochowski

Oficer z UB

Aleksander Dzwonkowski

Cezary Piszczyk, ojciec Jana

Tadeusz Bartosik

Wasik

Stanisław Jaworski

Zegarmistrz

Andrzej Krasicki

Witold Kropaczyński

Wojciech Litynski

Jan Piszczyk w dzieciństwie

Edward Dziewoński

Jelonek

Kazimierz Opaliński

Naczelnik więzienia

Jerzy Pichelski

Major Wrona-Wroński, ojciec Joli