
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.

Mieczysław Gajda
Lucjan Salis

Gustaw Holoubek
Dziadzia

Adam Pawlikowski
Zygmunt Stukonis
Anna Lubienska
Leopard

Beata Tyszkiewicz
Teodozja

Irena Netto
Stukonisowa

Zdzisław Maklakiewicz
Józef Bednarczyk

Halina Buyno-Łoza
Neighbour
Bogusław Danielewski
Waiter

Krystyna Feldman
Caretaker

Zuzanna Helska
Felicja
Ruth Taru-Kowalska
Bar Manager

Krzysztof Litwin
Student

Andrzej Kozak
Communist
Mojzesz Lancman
Publican