Jutro idziemy do kina

Though not the most exiting of films, I found the atmospherics well done, like watching an Allan First thriller made into a film.

Music, clothing, traffic, interiors, manners and mores, it all contributed in evoking the melancholic and long-lost atmosphere in Poland in the late thirties, washed away by WW2 and what came after.

This is a very interesting chronicle of the last months before the outbreak of WW2,which would devastate all the plans, all the dreams,and all the good prospects of three students from a well-to-do milieu ; after their graduation, they think the whole world is theirs ( the film ends with shots of a movie theater,showing "it' a wonderful world" ; it begins with hints at Hollywood movies :Garbo,Tarzan,et al); the highlight of the movie is perhaps the scene on the bridge where the three pals 'jump make them undefeatable (and blood brothers for life).

They do not take war seriously ; "we will make short work of them": they do not realize that the trenches they dig and their cavalry ,like the French Maginot Line ,offered a false sense of security against the German tanks.

The first ten minutes and the last ten minutes are lively but sharply contrasts : the joy of the dances at the graduation ball ,the panic in the streets with the first victims of the tragedy (a great scene shows two lovers on the beach under a blue sky,suddenly invaded by ominous planes)

The parents's side is not passed over in silence ;the mother , having lived through WW1 , and wondering "how many generations before we have peace? " echoes to the father's prideness :"you're the first young man of our family living in a free country for centuries "

The endearing actors are not known in Western Europa ,with the exception of Daniel Olbrychski (Schlöndorff's "die Blechtrommel " in Germany , Lelouch 's "ls uns et les autres " in France);too bad his part is a cameo.

I think there were practical reasons behind making this movie. Mainly shoot us a picture which the Polish public TV would have always at hand to play around the Second World War outbreak anniversary. And put some cutesy teens in it, so the young ones would have someone to identify with.

The cast is fairly decent. Most of the faces are recognizable for a Polish TV viewer and many of them are good actors. The message of the movie is also important - before the war the young people lived normal and often nice life, had their ambitions and their little crushes. Just like you would. The relations between them are also neatly portrayed.

However, all of that put together gives a result far from fascinating. It's neither very humorous nor very dramatic. It just show some people and some relations between them and a bit of what matters to them just a few days before the outbreak.

Of course the young people couldn't have a clue about what was coming, but yet, the mysterious imperative "You shall lose your virginity before 1st September" seemed to be present throughout a movie. And no, it didn't add that much attractiveness to it all.